Psalm 134 !

Psalm 134

A Song of Ascents.

Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,
who stand by night in the house of the Lord!
2 Lift up your hands to the holy place
and bless the Lord!

3 May the Lord bless you from Zion,
he who made heaven and earth!

I've come to today with many emotions. Our youngest son, Alexander, has found a great job doing what he has loved to do since he was about three years old. Has been home and at work, getting his Master's Degree to do this great job. Alexander has done his part as great son.


My Mother has Alzheimer's and she wants to talk about events from 2005 as if they are actually happening. Maybe it's hallucinations, maybe it's visions of Heaven. The Caregiver advice says to go with the flow unless harm is generated. She told me our cousin Maxine was extremely upset with her and they were in terrible odds. I said, no that's water under the bridge, Maxine has been in Heaven since 2010 and this is all resolved in God's Kingdom and with Jesus' help. My mother said this was good to know. Making sure Maxine really had passed on. Yes.

Another member of the family is not understanding critical issues. They are losing the car, when the police arrive to help - is unable to describe what type of vehicle they have lost. And the police arrive at this household because the security alarm code is forgotten about 3 times a week.

Edward is ill, with three lobes of his brain bearing terminal scarring. He still does well, but there are days he wants to talk about how he feels. His diagnosis says this typically happens to people in their early 50's and the 20 something children move far away, being unequipped emotionally to deal with parental terminal velocity. The Government study says let them go as far as they feel the need to go. Anger and demonstrative behavior won't equip 20 somethings. And with polite behavior and time so sort out all of this - the adult children will return. You have to love positive help.

Wait. If this is your life - then, this is what you know to talk about.

It's not like I just jump in someone's face and put this out there.

The Truth is this: If this were your life, you could expect kindly people asking how things in life really go. And you tell them a little and they tell you - I know I had something similar. The Truth is there is a reason why God tells us His Joy in Saving 'the "WORLD"' ... because in Proverbs 8, God delights in the Heart of mankind.

No one can be your Holy Spirit. Jesus is our Salvation. But the kindness of caring - is GOOD.

I love this photo on prayer. Our Living Room window looks like this after an early summer rain. Home. The Victory of Thanking Father God for His Goodness. The ability to raise our hands in private moments of prayer in supplication.

We study Prayer. What if we pray a million hundred thousand trillion ways?


Today, Alexander is moving out. I have prayed about this since he was in pre-school. More than I want Alexander's Fellowship - I want Alexander to be on his Path going forward and to God's Eternal Life.

Some of my consolation is - my Minister once told me if your child moves to the Heights, from our neck of The Woods - they generally move home to marry and have children. From your lips to God's ear, my Minister. I pray for his family and would love Father God to sprinkle this gracious prayer on my family as well! So I feel encouraged with a Real Faith there.




My mother's long time friend met Alexander again, living in other cities, in 2015. Cynthia said Alexander reminded her of her next door neighbor's youngest son immediately. He never met someone he loved and he stayed home with his lovely mother until her death and still lives in the family home at age 50=something unmarried. Now, that will drop your jaw to the floor and make you speechless with horror. For the story was long, and thank God, Thank Jesus, Thank Father God - the story did not match Alexander at all. Or me. I want to go to Heaven with Alexander surrounded by his wife who loves him and his children. Not missing Alexander's God Given Life.

Edward had a friend from High School, who lived in his parent's guest quarters for over 5 years as newly wedded husband and wife. And in five years, they purchased a very, very lovely home with cash. His father said if you do this you will have financial security. So this friend has adored his parents did this for him and his younger siblings.

I told this to my cousin and she said she'd do this. She did. She lived with her mom, my first cousin once removed, for ten years, and she and her family of five go on magnificent, broadening family vacations. Their home was paid for. The idea is this - you show your parents you are putting 80 to 90% income every year into the bank into savings. The Jews did this. Family Housing.

I always hoped my sons would do this. So far - not yet. And I prayed. And will pray daily.

In their college years, we prayed, after Edward and I lost our daughter Isabelle, they would come home for a time after College. They both did. Alleluia. Mostly!

I prayed for one of them to stay when Edward was diagnosed and Alexander did for 6 or 7 years. He has done his son duty. I adore to see Alexander's friends. Love them. They were our Church Youth Group for about 7 years. And they are starting to trickle back to our Neck of The Woods. I want to see them. Pray to. Hope to.

There is a well worn a path in my Prayer Life for their Believing Wife to be in Love with Jesus and His Church. My brother, an Attorney, called me furiously one day and he was so very angry. Why? I had to get rid of my older son's girlfriend she would be the RUIN of my son. Quickly, get rid of her. What? Well we fight our Battle's with Prayer. And after three years and a couple of fires, she departed. And all things work together for Good. We have had alcoholics in our family, but no one really believes until their generation sees this. Drinking from college has fallen way, way down to a mere nothing. God is Good.

So Far, Prayers have Been:

• Oh Mom, did you know I was getting ready to be in trouble in college and the Police coincidentally, actually arrived and that didn't happen. 
• (Fasting works, even if you don't find out until years later.) 
• Pray Apnea doesn't kill the small baby.
• Thank God for CPR Training.
• Get Married.  That one is Good, Thank God.
• Don't Get Married Now.
• Pray you don't marry this one and learn alcoholism. Pray no substance abuse.
• Go to this College!
• Oh God, why that College.
• Live through Swine Flu
• Survive coping with each other during "I'm Going to Get You Now" for Swine Flu, Swine
• Blessings for the son who was a Life Guard and saved a young woman at the WAC.
• Pray High School isn't a let down over working.
• Get a wonderful SPCA Husky. Pray Thank You.
• Have Husky Dog overcome old age for a year and a half, we all cry ten years later.
• Pray for the family giving up Spring Break to have our Husky in Heaven. All arrive.
• Get this Particular Job, Thank God
• Get a better than this Particular Job
• Live with this Roommate. Thank God.
• Survive living with this Roommate.
• Pray for the High School Ski Trip
• Pray not to want to yell at everyone who acted badly on the ski trip.
• Pray that High School Youth Leadership will not falter.
• Pray for the child who vomited on everyone in the tent in the middle of the night in the High School Youth Trip Camping Trip.
• Pray for the flu to end.
• Pray thanksgiving over the sons who wouldn't sneak out of the house at night.
• Pray for the child who learned to snowboard and find out he didn't go off the tall cliff. Thank Jesus.
• Pray for the child as a teen group, chased by homeless people in Atlanta.
• Watch Cal give Alexander his red little paid for himself two door Lexus.
• Pray later we sell the car to make Cal feel Blessed.
• Pray for the child coming home from college who had a car do a 360' on a dry day on the interstate.
• Pray Alexander will love Baylor and Thank God, he does.
• Pray for Alexander to get the job in college with good Travel. 
• Pray Safe Travel.
• Pray where is Alexander in the world because he is in Europe and is supposed to have been home for a week. Where is he.
• Give Thanks Alexander is safe and wrote down the wrong date.
• Give Thanks for Alexander's Lovely Girlfriend!
• Watch Cal pay for a friend who can't afford rent, for a nice place to live for two years.
• Train Cal's friend at the job Cal got for him in insurance for a year. He affords his own place.
• Pray for a long time friend who now drinks to find a different path.
• Be glad your sons didn't marry outside of being 21 because there are 4 divorces. Pray Peace all.
• Pray for Grandchildren who Love Jesus.
• Pray for Cal to go to Law School in Texas.
• Pray we survive Cal going to Michigan.
• Pray for Cal not to move to the East Coast.
• Pray now about Colorado. C'mon Texas.
• Pray for Alexander who has changed fields and needs work
• Thank God work arrives in just a few weeks.
• Pray for the child who tried out for the H S Baseball team and was sad to become the Manager.
• Pray for the Football child who is asked to be on the HS Baseball team and won't to avoid hurting the brother.
• Pray for the child who didn't get into the Fraternity.
• Pray for the President of the Fraternity dealing with Student Government, Police, drugs, drunks and broken antiques and having the time of his life. Pray.
• Pray for depression for loss of his sister.
• Pray for the family who gives up Spring Break to sit in her little bedroom and miss her.
• Pray for depression for his dad's illness.
• Pray for Alexander to Get Into Grad School
• Pray Alexander loves Grad School.
• Pray when being asked to make Amazing Travel for Career.
• Pray for two moles not to be Cancer. One bleeds. And they are not Thank God.
• Pray for Alexander who so wants a Job and Finds Always what Alexander wanted.
• Pray for a young man to understand all about full time work.
• Thank God for this Job. Thank Jesus.
• Pray for the son on vacation who goes Dirt Biking and is now looking like Pharaoh.
• Pray for the 30 year old son hiking across Colorado alone.
• Pray for the two sons hiking in Colorado on a Rocky mountain top in lightning, sliding down.
• Pray for the son who told you he wouldn't hike in the forest fire areas and later tells you he lost his wallet there.
• Over 30 Years of Daily Prayer and Matters of Utmost Importance. Solved. Thank God.
• Pray for their wisdom and giving word.
• Pray for the son who was told he will be a Very Good Youth Minister after he retires.
• Pray for the son who talks in his sleep to tell me he has a Good Soul and I go downstairs and read in Proverbs about knowing when your soul is Good with God. And Pleases God.
• Wanting yours sons to help you with Terminal Illness in their father.
• Praying for them to have their own life leading to Jesus and Heaven. And Christian Marriage and wonderful children.
• Pray not to lose patience when they say, "Oh Mom, you sent me hand sanitizer for the Covid 19?"
• Pray Thank God listens to us Pray and Does His Plan. Because our prayers are very close to the ground. And Thank GOD, God is God.

Covered in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

We can't always clearly pray Thank You for Answered Prayers

when our Prayers point so many directions.

Psalm 134 

Come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord,

who stand by night in the house of the Lord!

2 Lift up your hands to the holy place

and bless the Lord!

3 May the Lord bless you from Zion,

he who made heaven and earth!

Matthew 1

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"

Our Abba,

You, our Father God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, 18 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. Hebrews 6.

Isaiah 40:9
Go up on a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news. Raise your voice loudly, O Jerusalem, herald of good news. Lift it up, do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!"

Isaiah 25:9
And in that day it will be said, "Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation."

To know the Scriptures, To know the Power of God. Thank You.

To Pray with Jesus. To ask You, Father God.

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.”

John 14:6
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Philippians 2:9-11
Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

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

Romans 10:13
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

In the Name of Jesus, we pray Jesus is revealed. We pray all we love and all we know, find Jesus Loves. We pray our children to have what we can give them in financial help. We pray the wisdom of family life with Love.

Families Ephesians tells us Live together in Heaven and earth.

We pray Jesus revealed in our prayers. We pray Jesus revealed to answer those prayers.

We ask to Seek Jesus First. To live lives of Love, Peace and Joy. Pleasing to You.

We Pray Jesus and have the calm of a child with Father God.

We Hold up Jesus and His Name and have the Blessing from Numbers 6.
And cover those we Love in this Blessing. We cover the people God has given us.
We Cover our Churches. We Cover our Communities with Jesus. We Cover our Nation
Trusting in God to have this Blessing of Jesus.

We pray with Belief and Lean upon Jesus in His Faith. We give Father God
all our cares and cover all of the world You Love in Jesus.

Thank You Father God for the People I Love. You have Given.

Thank You for so Many Answered Prayers. Thank Jesus.

And pray Your Good Will. Amen.

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Psalm 51:14-19 ~ Bloodguiltiness

Psalm 51:14-19

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem;
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.

Jesus has Paid the Price

In the Old Covenant, generations were burdened with the sins of the fathers. And in Psychology, we find this pattern of brokenness is true. When we gather all of our difficulties and put them on the scale - the burden can feel unsurmountable. And why would we ask Jesus - so Wonderful - to burden Himself with us.

There is an Answer. Jesus Christ. The Exact Nature of God.

Every 500 years, remarkable things occur. And seeing what unfolds later is much easier.

Black Plague - 1300s A.D. 1/3 to 1/2 of Europe. Even in China.

Bible being translated into other Languages - 1300 A.D.

Spanish Inquisition - 1400 A.D.

Gutenberg Bible - early 1400's in Latin.

Renaissance - 1300 to 1600 A.D.

Martin Luther - not to charge mankind for forgiveness - "Indulgences" - early 1500's.

The swing of left to right. Moses and Joshua told us to avoid.

Even in the founding of this Nation, people were once held in stockades for trial, for cussing, for being disobedient to parents. This is the fluctuation of not to the right, not to the left.

The Renaissance was an awakening.
Mankind was in transition from serfdom, plagues, freedom, need for God in belief He would care and help. Education. The idea mankind was in His Image. Forgiveness. Hospitalization with bravery. Leaving cities behind walls and belief God would enable mankind to trust in God's Goodness and in the Light of mankind in man.

Mankind in the Middle Ages was literally leaving being left in the soil, the dirt while the Renaissance believed to look up to God. Our heart and soul makes us important to Jesus because God sent us Jesus.

Scripture Repeats.

Luke 5 The Call of the Disciples becomes Jesus helping Disciples to Go forth in God's Light 

and is John 21

Jeremiah knew something of mankind plowing out an existence in farming, just small plots and having the Blessing of God to become proud. Jeremiah and Moses knew mankind and in the Holy Spirit predicted Israel would invent a past and refuse to acknowledge slavery and the Exodus. Preferring to say they were from Edom or Moab. And God would reduce them and raise them in only 70 years.

Jeremiah was placed in David's, now Kings of Judah, Palace prison where God would find a place for Jeremiah to preach the Word of God, to have a future, to be protected and even give Jeremiah a home to look forward to.

Jeremiah could have spent time in bitterness and instead Jeremiah sees the Exact Nature of God in Jesus Christ.

Literally, Jeremiah is left in the dirt of the earth to look up to our Father God to believe His Mercy and Forgiveness will make a Way, Life and Truth.

Jeremiah 31

 “At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, 

and they shall be my people.”

2 Thus says the Lord:

“The people who survived the sword

found grace in the wilderness;

when Israel sought for rest,

3 the Lord appeared to him from far away.

I have loved you with an everlasting love;

therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built,

O virgin Israel!

Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines

and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

5 Again you shall plant vineyards

on the mountains of Samaria;

the planters shall plant

and shall enjoy the fruit.

6 For there shall be a day when watchmen will call

in the hill country of Ephraim:

‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,

to the Lord our God.’”

7 For thus says the Lord:

“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,

and raise shouts for the chief of the nations;

proclaim, give praise, and say,

‘O Lord, save your people,

the remnant of Israel.’

8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country

and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,

among them the blind and the lame,

the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together;

a great company, they shall return here.

9 With weeping they shall come,

and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,

I will make them walk by brooks of water,

in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,

for I am a father to Israel,

and Ephraim is my firstborn.

10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,

and declare it in the coastlands far away;

say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,

and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob

and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.

12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,

and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord,

over the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and over the young of the flock and the herd;

their life shall be like a watered garden,

and they shall languish no more.

13 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,

and the young men and the old shall be merry.

I will turn their mourning into joy;

I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

14 I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance,

and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,

declares the Lord.”

15 Thus says the Lord:

“A voice is heard in Ramah,

lamentation and bitter weeping.

Rachel is weeping for her children;

she refuses to be comforted for her children,

because they are no more.”

16 Thus says the Lord:

“Keep your voice from weeping,

and your eyes from tears,

for there is a reward for your work,

declares the Lord,

and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

17 There is hope for your future,

declares the Lord,

and your children shall come back to their own country.

18 I have heard Ephraim grieving,

‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,

like an untrained calf;

bring me back that I may be restored,

for you are the Lord my God.

19 For after I had turned away, I relented,

and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh;

I was ashamed, and I was confounded,

because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

20 Is Ephraim my dear son?

Is he my darling child?

For as often as I speak against him,

I do remember him still.

Therefore my heart yearns for him;

I will surely have mercy on him,

declares the Lord.

21 “Set up road markers for yourself;

make yourself guideposts;

consider well the highway,

the road by which you went.

Return, O virgin Israel,

return to these your cities.

22 How long will you waver,

O faithless daughter?

For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:

a woman encircles a man.”

23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes:

“‘The Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness,

O holy hill!’

24 And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks. 25 For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

26 At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

27 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the Lord. 29 In those days they shall no longer say:

“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

and the children's teeth are set on edge.’

30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. 

Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

The New Covenant

31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

35 Thus says the Lord,

who gives the sun for light by day

and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—

the Lord of hosts is his name:

36 “If this fixed order departs

from before me, declares the Lord,

then shall the offspring of Israel cease

from being a nation before me forever.”

37 Thus says the Lord:

“If the heavens above can be measured,

and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,

then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel

for all that they have done,

declares the Lord.”

38 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron,

 to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, 

shall be sacred to the Lord. 

It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”

We are in transition again. The Civil War was the end of Slavery. And the ambitions of Farming. We provided Freedoms and Detroit began as an escape of unending and unrewarding small farming. The transition of Industrialization in Detroit never had the hundreds of years to take the swing out of the transition.

We transitioned again in World Wars. And like the First Century A.D. - family was in question. Rites of Inheritance. Business reliable small business to promote the stability of marriage and family. Wars were fought to allow nations to provide for their families. In swing over transitions of costs of Industrialization and poorer nations.

And just as this settled down again after the World Wars, try reading how proudly the 1950 appliances and their engineers and workers hope for a Hope and Future of their products. - We joined the era of Television. The stranger in our midst who had violent crimes, moral crimes, abortion, mafia, comedy, travel, glamor, a careless disregard of marriage and children and family, a new pattern of speech and sloth. We didn't need a piano, board games, small chores, long dinners. Family visits. Leave the Television on during dinner.


The transition occurred again. We needed jobs, bigger houses, more employment, childcare, nursing homes and airplane rides to family to show prosperity.

The transition happened again. We needed less risk. Social Security. Insurance in all forms. Even disability insurance. We needed less need for old age parents.

We transitioned again. Housing could be a scary and risky thing. Nursing homes become unaffordable. College becomes unaffordable. Social media takes care of our need for face to face relationships. And we need the pretense we are all doing well financially. No one says we can't afford to travel to family funerals as older people. No one says what is happening to the debt on young people for college the price of a 30 year home. We have pride. And in this pride we condemn culture on social media. All of us do this.

Risk is everywhere. Jobs, Health, Healthcare, Housing, Debt, Affluence, Image. Family dislocation.
And in this risk, we see wild swings from Left to Right. Caused by avoiding all the Risks.


Enter morbid Halloween is acceptable as humor. But not Ash Wednesday Nationally because this is a condemning and fearful presence.








We are in transition.

How will we have a Holy Lent and Blessed Easter. Our mothers are to provide a career wage as if they have no children. And to parent so well the children do not reflect their mother has a career. Our grandparents are far away. We have less illegitimate birth and more acceptable co-habitation. Do not burden anyone with your idea of Righteousness or Sin.

We are in the midst of a Violent 100 Years.

Marriage is as frail as the Renaissance.
Swings in Information.
The Vast Need of Safety.

We have Affluence.
Temporary Affluence and Pride.

We can take Comfort by this...
We do better than others
Or put on a better show
Having all the eggs in the basket - these 10 years
We are more righteous than most people. So there.

Or We Can Acknowledge the Stress of Left Right and the world in Transition.

Solutions

Answers

Jesus Christ

In the Book of Acts, the world was in Distress. The Roman Empire was crumbling. Violent Crime. Lowered Trade. Marriage laws created family fears. Sex sin. Slave sin. Idol sin.

How will we have Holy Lent, Blessed Easter and Holy Lives.

Ecclesiastes 1:9
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.The

The Kings of The Old Testament are our family relations. The decades of the Scriptures are our decades. The brokenness is our brokenness. This time in our Nation has reasons to rejoice. Racism is put down. Employment is pulled up. Marriage is on the increase. Love. We Love our Children. We change denominations to get closer to the Word of God.

We are in Stress. And God, like the Exodus in Babylon, is pulling us up with Faith.

Forgiveness. Isn't Jesus letting the Disciples be fired for asking Jesus to cause fire to fall on the Samaritans. Luke 9:54. Jesus did not fill out Papers of Termination for them.

Forgiveness. Jesus didn't find other Disciples when the Disciples wanted Jesus to get rid of the Children surrounding Jesus. Matthew 19:14.

Forgiveness. Jesus didn't let go of Peter, James or John when they didn't like Him to talk to the Samaritan Woman. John 6.

Forgiveness. The Disciples didn't flee to the next town when Jesus held the Lepers.

Forgiveness. The Disciples didn't put Thomas out when Lazarus was raised and Thomas said, we are all going to die with Jesus now. John 11.

And what kept Jesus with the Disciples 
in Holy expectation of the coming Easter?

Similar to us having a Holy Lent today?

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, 
that ye love one another; as I have loved you, 
that ye also love one another.

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife 
but love covers all sins

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, 
because love covers over a multitude of sins.

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John 1:35-37 ~ followed Jesus †

The Joy and Hope of Newly in Love!

John 1:35-37

35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”

37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

And then there is realism and sarcasm. From the lack of awe and wonder. For action, lack of action and recompense. For hurt feelings and a good case of the selfies.

Revelation 3:16
You are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

The Stage of Marriage Counseling.

Mark 10:35-45

35 And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came up to him and said to him, “Teacher,
we want you
to do for us
whatever 
we ask of you.”

36 And he said to them, “What do you want me to do for you?”

37 And they said to him, “Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.”

38 Jesus said to them, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or to be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?”

39 And they said to him, “We are able.”

And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized, you will be baptized, 40 but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to grant, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.”

41 And when the ten heard it, they began to be indignant at James and John.
42 And Jesus called them to him and said to them, “You know that those who are considered rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. 43 But it shall not be so among you.

But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever would be first among you must be slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”








Shall we have a Prayer Journal?

Will we instead have a Ledger of Wins and Loses?
Hindsight. Even the devil quotes Scripture. Jesus tells us He desires Mercy over Sacrifice.

Jesus is Grace upon Grace. Never again do the Gospels again record Jesus discussing John and James asking for the Best Seats in Heaven or earth. However, Jesus is God.

Luke 18:17 
Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.

Hebrews 11:6 
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

Jesus said Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.






Luke 17:22
And He said to the disciples, "The days will come. 
When you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it."

Pray without Ceasing.

Psalm 139

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.
7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?

Matthew 18:3
"Truly I tell you," He said, "unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 19:14
But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."

Mark 10:15
Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.

Father in Heaven.

1 Peter 2:5-6
You also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 6 For it stands in Scripture: “See, I lay in Zion a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and the one who believes in Him will never be put to shame.”

1 Corinthians 6

19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore glorify God with your body.

Ezekiel 36:27
I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.

Isaiah 63:11
Then His people remembered the days of old, of Moses Where is He who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of His flock? Where is He who put His Holy Spirit in the midst of them,

2 Timothy 1:14
Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.




Abba,

You have given us Jesus, and our hearts Live Abundantly with Thanksgiving.

faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. The work of mankind is to believe the One God has sent, our Jesus, the Christ of God.

In all The Promises You Freely have Given us, we Thank You for Jesus and our welcome into Your Kingdom. Eternally today will become the Tomorrow of Eternity. Abundant Life in Jesus Christ.

The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by His Powerful Word. After he had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in Heaven.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

His Steadfast Love does not Change. We trust You, Abba, with our cares. We pray impudently as falling short of Your Glory. Praying with a Sincere Heart for Your Great Love and Mercy. Entrusting and enfolding those we Love in Your Love.

Resting all our cares in Peace. Your Peace. We ask to Seek You First. We ask You to put in us Your Way, Truth and Life. We ask to live in Love, Peace and Joy. And Believe this to be to Your Glory.

We are blessed, we have the eyes of faith, yet did not see Jesus. And we are Blessed to have faith and we will See Jesus. You live and move and have our being with You.

We join with the Communion of Saints knowing Your Good Creation is filled with Your Beloved asking Your Will be done on earth as in Heaven. Giving Thanks for Elliott to have healing. For Dee to feel better. For Jim to be healed. For our hopes in Jesus to be established in each give us this day.

Jesus is our Daily Living Bread. Thanks Be to God for Jesus and His Love. Amen.

 

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