Psalm 34 ~ Magnify the Lord with me

When Edward and I were newlyweds, we bought a 1953 cottage near White Rock Lake in Dallas. It had the fifty year old furnace, all the original porcelain in the bathrooms, the original water heater, but as we lived in dust, we eventually discovered the pier and beam foundation never hooked up the return ducts for the Air Conditioning. We lived with the basement being dragged in. ... Eventually we learned the leaf blower was the way to tackle the problem with our wood floors. Pulling out the yellow pages under the sofa, was not longer a hairy experience.

Now we have tile, and two long haired hypo-allergenic Standard Poodles. And plenty of stay-at-home-Covid time. We've found this: if we take the leaf blower and allow it to up-gear and low-gear, we can clean out under all the beds, the sofa, the refrigerator (quit making an odd noise) and live in a temporary dust storm placing the dust in one corner for vacuuming everything and dusting ceiling to floor. The vacuum cleaner is then - filled. We could nicely, politely vacuum everything, but we'd have half the dust collected by the end of our cleaning regime. Blowing the dust out is like getting the carbon out of the engine every now and then! And it's faster than wiping down the stairs.


The Scriptures take this approach to telling about lives: We find Gideon explained carefully to the messenger of God about his belief in his lack of qualifications. Jesse, Father to David, explained to Samuel, who had traveled from Shiloh to Bethlehem to find the anointed of God among his eight sons, David wasn't worth his time. David's first wife did agree, opting to remain with royal King Saul. David, criminal to Israel then ran with mercenaries known to be malcontents and killers. Living in caves and ditches.

God fully believes in getting the dust out, as He tells His Story.

David was not in high cotton, he wasn't sitting in placid fields protecting the sheep he'd known all his life. He was not in the season of lambing the sheep. He had now placed his own family in safety and was doing mercenary pirate type raids.

Taking all the tools we are given to looking Up. To finding Joy.

Psalm 34

I will bless the Lord at all times;

his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

2 My soul makes its boast in the Lord;

let the humble hear and be glad.

3 Oh, magnify the Lord with me,

and let us exalt his name together!

4 I sought the Lord, and he answered me

and delivered me from all my fears.

5 Those who look to him are radiant,

and their faces shall never be ashamed.

6 This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him

and saved him out of all his troubles.

7 The angel of the Lord encamps

around those who fear him, and delivers them.

8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good!

Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!

9 Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints,

for those who fear him have no lack!

10 The young lions suffer want and hunger;

but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

11 Come, O children, listen to me;

I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

12 What man is there who desires life

and loves many days, that he may see good?

13 Keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from speaking deceit.

14 Turn away from evil and do good;

seek peace and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous

and his ears toward their cry.

16 The face of the Lord is against those who do evil,

to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

17 When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears

and delivers them out of all their troubles.

18 The Lord is near to the brokenhearted

and saves the crushed in spirit.

19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous,

but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

20 He keeps all his bones;

not one of them is broken.

21 Affliction will slay the wicked,

and those who hate the righteous will be condemned.

22 The Lord redeems the life of his servants;

none of those who take refuge in him will be condemned.

David is a great source for living an unexpected life and finding the Strength of God. Joy.

1. Those who seek the Lord, lack no good thing.
2.  By Blessing the Lord. We give the Lord thanks for what we can honestly give God, all our gifts are from God. We Bless God, verse 1, by giving sincere thanks. Sometimes the effort to find thanks can take half an hour. The relief is superb to find genuine thanks. Reversing anger, depression, low spirits. A new point of view can be as wonderful as an actual vacation.
3. Apply All Things work, interweave, for good for those who Love the Lord and are called according to His Purpose.
4. We then have to believe reverse circumstance, lousy fortune, plain angering misfortune might have a puzzle to solve. Something interesting to observe and learn. Turning life back into a journey of change with adaption away from fear.
5. Believing God is really this Large. Creator of All Things. Calling all the stars by name and knowing the Names of the Heavenly Host. Capable and Worthy God.

What then shall we Fear?

Yar is the word used often regarding the Fear of the Lord. Reverence.  Boasting - being part of the Plan of God. David believed God was part of all of the 22 years of wretched misfortune. David believed even Angels would help him.

God tells us He planned to give us the 'work' to believe Jesus as God. David gives us an idea of this work.

Keep your tongue from evil

and your lips from speaking deceit.

14 Turn away from evil and do good;

seek peace and pursue it.

Finding the Joy, Finding the Blessing instead of the complaint.

What will we do if we feel so depleted, crushed, we find the work too difficult? Life does this. Never is the doctor less appealing than when we truly feel ill. During Covid 19, people report feeling ill and wrung out with fears of doom. Many in the medical community and a recent sampling of the population believe about 14% of the population is either recovering from Covid or asymptomatic.  Wrung down. Tired. One man who is totally recovered reports knowing to fight off the despair was life saving.

1. The angel of the Lord encamps around those in fear calling on God.
2.  Believing God is here for the long haul, He answers prayers.  Michelangelo believed to pray was to change the Book of Life. Believing God alters fate to Blessing from praying.
3. Remember how Large God is. Capable. Merciful.
4. A man in poor spirits cries, God Hears. Jesus tells us God is so aware even sparrows are within His caring range.
5. It isn't the weak who feel starved in different aspects, God says Lions feel depleted as well.
6. We mustn't feel God only answers the supremely righteous. God says we are all fallen and to ask Jesus is to have been Heard. Taking Jesus into our souls, reminding God to live in us, covers us in the Name of Jesus in the Heart of our Father God.
7.  In Jesus we are the righteous God hears our afflictions. Afflictions is a deep word for a cry in our prayers.
8. Redemption is a word of Joy. Happiness. Peace. Loved. The Lord will Redeem.

One of the wonders of our generation, life today: Two generations back, Israel had not existed in 2,000 years. When we casually fly in a plane and love to see the vistas, 3 generations back didn't ever see what we see easily. Aerial photos didn't exist. In my childhood, much of the Gospels were unproven historically. Vast archaeology has changed this in 30 years. Young people who watch old television programs are amazed at the understated and profound morals of old television. Yet to have lived during these generations, it was incredibly rude to ask what religious beliefs you held beyond your denomination - which wouldn't really change ever. We are people who worry about change, having lived through so much change. And yet, people today pray more than ever before.

God is Very Involved with us - today.

In the time of Jesus, there were Pharisees and Sadducees. Pharisees were very high and mighty when reaching the top of the scale. Jesus loved the humble man who prayed not feeling as if his life was so righteous God owed him anything. Jesus loved the Centurion who wouldn't have had a perfect life. Sadducees were willing to endlessly debate morality and God Himself, yet felt God was Deist and man would only become dust. Jesus is never recorded, like we did in the mid part of the last century, ask if someone was Pharisee, Sadducee or humble. Jesus asked us to Believe God and to include Him in ongoing conversational prayer. Jesus fully displayed He is a one to one Father to us. And this is Joy and Love and Expectation of God's Love and Mercies.

Abba,

You are for us Today.

The Life we lead in Jesus Christ places us on Your High Way. The hills and Highways of Heaven are our roads today in Jesus Christ.

I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even though I don't feel it. I believe in God, today, and will have the Road to Emmaus to Read Your Word.

The Road to Emmaus is On. We will do the work God has called for us.

And lift High the Name of Jesus. Believing in Your Willingness to Save the ones we Love. Redemption. Love. Joy. To find Heaven upon this earth doing Your Good Will.

Believing this Virus will end. Believing in Recovery. Believing in the goodness of the Light of Christ shining in the efforts of all Nations, all mankind to work to save one another. Believing in the number not readily broadcast of Recovered. Believing in the recorded percentage of Immunity granted in the Population. Seeing the young go out to work to make a path for the older to be safe. To see the diligence of the Nation to provide us with facts, care and honest hard work.

I believe in God's Blessings. We live them today.

In Jesus Christ, we will have Love, Joy, Strength and Peace. Amen and Amen.

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Psalm 109:21-31 ~ For He stands at the right hand of the needy one

The Last Pieta carved by Michelangelo. Three drawings, not cartoons, were made of the Sculpture. The 3rd one was enacted upon. This statue was carved the last 6 days of Michelangelo's life. 

A simple faith.

Psalm 109:21-31

21 But you, O God my Lord,
deal on my behalf for your name's sake;
because your steadfast love is good, deliver me!
22 For I am poor and needy,
and my heart is stricken within me.
23 I am gone like a shadow at evening;
I am shaken off like a locust.
24 My knees are weak through fasting;
my body has become gaunt, with no fat.
25 I am an object of scorn to my accusers;
when they see me, they wag their heads.

26 Help me, O Lord my God!
Save me according to your steadfast love!
27 Let them know that this is your hand;
you, O Lord, have done it!
28 Let them curse, but you will bless!
They arise and are put to shame, but your servant will be glad!
29 May my accusers be clothed with dishonor;
may they be wrapped in their own shame as in a cloak!

30 With my mouth I will give great thanks to the Lord;
I will praise him in the midst of the throng.
31 For he stands at the right hand of the needy one,
to save him from those who condemn his soul to death.

Prayer by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

Oh, make me see Thee, Lord, where'er I go!
If mortal beauty sets my soul on fire,
That flame when near to Thine must needs expire,
And I with love of only Thee shall glow.
Dear Lord, Thy help I seek against this woe,
These torments that my spirit vex and tire;
Thou only with new strength canst re-inspire
My will, my sense, my courage faint and low.
Thou gavest me on earth this soul divine;
And Thou within this body weak and frail
Didst prison it--how sadly there to live!
How can I make its lot less vile than mine?
Without Thee, Lord, all goodness seems to fail.
To alter fate is God's prerogative.

When we begin the Gospels, we find God only works with the frailty of human life. The wise men didn't always know where to find Jesus.

The Disciples didn't always want to be found near Jesus.

And Michelangelo became known to the Vatican trying to pass the sale of his statues being of antiquity. The Vatican wisely knew the statue was not ancient and instead took up Michelangelo. Michelangelo began the deceptive sale because he was pressed with political upheaval with his world in Florence and by his patrons the Medici. Eventually, Michelangelo would return to Florence to try to help them, only to return again to his ongoing 40 years on the works of God.

If Michelangelo had given up hope, if he had not pressed on in hopeless times, his full life would never have emerged.

God welcomes our prayers. The Gates of Heaven, where Peter is given the key, are always open. Peter has learned a thing or two, living with Jesus Christ.

Luke 11
5 And he said to them, “Which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves, 6 for a friend of mine has arrived on a journey, and I have nothing to set before him’; 7 and he will answer from within, ‘Do not bother me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed. I cannot get up and give you anything’? 8 I tell you, though he will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his impudence he will rise and give him whatever he needs. 9 And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

The prayer not to be forgotten does seem pretty impudent. Until we realize Jacob Astley, gave this as his battle-prayer at the Battle of Edgehill.

We are all in a battle of sorts. And to live with faith, hope and Love is a daily choice. The prayer isn't impudent and is the ongoing life we all have.


Abba,

Live in my soul, help this to be a favorite place of Yours. Allow me this day to see the Blessings You've given.

Dwell in those I love, that we will encourage each other. During this time of good news, worry, speculation, boredom and fear, help us to chose the Good Portion to hold on to Your Love.

To rest and find comfort in the morning. To find renewal during the day. To be at peace in the evenings. To comfort and help those You've Given me. To strengthen me with Your Wisdom and Love.

The Blessing of seeking You and Your Kingdom first. To Live in Love, Peace and Joy.

This day traveling the High Ways of Heaven.

Sext or Midday Prayer (Sixth Hour = approximately 12 noon)
The Lord's Prayer is said Nationwide for the Nation and your prayer requests. We ask the Blessing of seeking God first and His Kingdom here on earth and Heaven. We pray to Live Love, Peace and Joy.

Nones or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = approximately 3 p.m.)
We pray for the ill to not have suffering. We pray the Virus to stop. We pray for Health Care to have hope, strength and relief. We pray for God's Miracles and His daily Love enfolding us.

Amen in Jesus Christ.

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Psalm 124 ~ the Lord Who was on our side

Psalm 124

A Song of Ascents. Of David.

If it had not been the Lord who was on our side—
let Israel now say—
2 if it had not been the Lord who was on our side
when people rose up against us,
3 then they would have swallowed us up alive,
when their anger was kindled against us;
4 then the flood would have swept us away,
the torrent would have gone over us;
5 then over us would have gone
the raging waters.

6 Blessed be the Lord,
who has not given us
as prey to their teeth!
7 We have escaped like a bird
from the snare of the fowlers;
the snare is broken,
and we have escaped!

8 Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.

Here we are back in our homes. And in Holy Week, we saw the peak flatten for the first time.

And in Easter Week, we saw National plans forming for States to begin our Recovery.

We are far above the stated loss of millions of people.


Our Father God Loves us. Our Father God hears our prayers.

Jesus told us how...

I've included the photo as something to think about

during stay at home.

When we concentrate on saying the Lord's Prayer, we can change just about any vapor of fleeting discouragement. And when this doesn't happen, God is going with us in all Circumstances.

Usually, The Lord's Prayer is a Light.

The Gospels do not include, "For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever." This refers to Revelation 1 and Revelation 6. The people of God were so encouraged to read John, suddenly one Sunday, John was suddenly sitting in the forever Home and Kingdom with Jesus. And returning to tell us about seeing John's, and our, wonderful Jesus. When we say the Lord's Prayer and we say, "Hallowed be Thy Name",  remember Jesus was being present in the moment. The Hallowed or Holy Name is Jesus. Life after death and back again.

Prayer is not systematic. Anything we tell Jesus relies on Jesus. Abraham had a lot of faults just being Abraham, and God credited his faith as righteousness. To have a simple faith is more than pleasing to God.

Abba,

We simply tell You, thank You for delivering us from being surrounded by Death.
This could have been something terrible we never recover from.

In the Hope and Joy of the quick response from this savage Virus, with 5 promising vaccines, we Thank You for Your Mercy.

Thanking You we did not see our young generation die or have crippling injuries. We Thank You for seeing the end of this virus. We have overcome our fear of death for ourselves, our loved ones, the people who are older, but we are seeing the fright of income recovery.

Abba, to be in need is frightening. And one boy brought you two loaves and five fish.

And The People of God were satisfied.

With 12 Baskets left over.

We are the people of God. His Beloved. He has seen us through, we will Pray with Hope.
Having Expectation of God's Provision. Daily.

O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.

He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; holy and awesome is His name.

O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.

I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope.

In Jesus the Christ of God, our own Jesus, Amen.

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Numbers 6:24 ~ The LORD bless you and keep you

Numbers 6:24

The LORD bless you and keep you

Deuteronomy 28:3

You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

2 Samuel 7:29

Now therefore, may it please You to bless the house of Your servant, that it may continue forever before You. For You, O Lord GOD, have spoken, and with Your blessing the house of Your servant will be blessed forever.

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Psalm 28:9

Save Your people and bless Your inheritance; shepherd them and carry them forever.

Genesis 18:2-4
2 Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he hurried from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.

3 He said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, my lord, do not pass your servant by. 
4 Let a little water be brought, and then you may all wash your feet and rest under this tree.

Matthew 17:4
Peter said to Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. If you wish, I will put up three shelters--one for you, one for Moses and one for Elijah."

Matthew 28:20
Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age

Exodus 33:17
And the Lord said to Moses, “This very thing that you have spoken I will do, for you have found favor in my sight, and I know you by name.”

2 Chronicles 33:11-13
Therefore the Lord brought upon them the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria, who captured Manasseh with hooks and bound him with chains of bronze and brought him to Babylon. 12 And when he was in distress, he entreated the favor of the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him, and God was moved by his entreaty and heard his plea and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.

Zechariah 12:10-13

10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. 

11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; 13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; 14 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves. 

Luke 18:1

And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray 

and not lose heart.

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John 20:30-31 ~ these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His Name

John 20:30-31

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;  but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Matthew 5:18
For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.

John 1:4
In him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John 3:15
that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

John 3:36
Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

John 4:14
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

John 4:36 
Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

 John 5:21
For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom he will.

John 5:24
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life.

John 5:26
For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.

John 5:29
and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

John 5:39
You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me 

John 5:40
yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life

John 6:27
Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.

John 6:33
For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.

John 6:35
Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 6:40
For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

John 6:47
Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.

John 6:48
I am the bread of life.

John 6:51
I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:53
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

John 6:54
Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:63
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.

John 6:68
Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life,

John 8:12
Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

John 10:10
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 10:11
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

John 10:15
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 10:17
For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

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

John 11:25
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live 

John 12:25
Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John 12:50
And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

John 13:37
Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.”

John 13:38
Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.

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.

John 15:13
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

John 17:2
Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

John 17:3
And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

John 20:31
but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.



When we think of Jesus having comfort in John's presence, The Disciple, being so brave to be with Jesus on Good Friday. We would want to know how John had the courage.

Life is mentioned in the Gospels:
Matthew (14)
Mark (7)
Luke (14)
John (43)

John believed all of Life is in Jesus Christ. John believed in the broken, weakened, bleeding Son of God: in Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

John believed beyond all things, personal danger, 72 disciples leaving when learning about Communion of Jesus as bread and wine - John believed Jesus is Life.


Abba, Father God,

These days have boredom, worry and fear. With new hope. When You gave Your Son Life again, Jesus spoke to His Disciples: "Peace."

The Brothers of Jesus Christ wrote words learned from their Brother, Jesus Christ:

James 3:17
The wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

Jude 1:2
May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Abba,  we pray for the virus to end. We ask for comfort for those who have lost loved ones. And believe in Jesus and His Kingdom where families live forever.

In the Name of Jesus, we pray the Blessing of Seeking You first, Your Kingdom every day. To Live Love, Joy and Peace. Covering those we Love in Jesus Christ.

We pray for this Nation and the Leaders to have all Your Willing Blessings to help solve this crisis. Covering all we love in this prayer and for all this Nation and the Nations of Your Good Creation.

May Christ dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever.

In Jesus Christ, God's Son, Amen.

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Psalm 130 ~ with the Lord there is Steadfast Love

Psalm 130

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!
2 O Lord, hear my voice!
Let your ears be attentive
to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

3 If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
that you may be feared.

5 I wait for the Lord, my soul waits,
and in his word I hope;
6 my soul waits for the Lord
more than watchmen for the morning,
more than watchmen for the morning.

7 O Israel, hope in the Lord!
For with the Lord there is steadfast love,
and with him is plentiful redemption.
8 And he will redeem Israel
from all his iniquities.

If we tie together all of the Resurrection from the Gospels we find Amazing Love. The Disciples were basically traitorous.

From being basic human beings in the middle of horrible fear. Not worthy of God!

“Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.

He is not here, for he has risen, as he said.

Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him.

And behold, Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!”

He told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and earth. 19 Therefore go and make disciples in all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and then teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you; and be sure of this—that I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”

John 13:34
A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so also you must love one another.

Jesus said to her, “Do not hold fast to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father
and your Father,
to my God and your God.’”

Jesus offers adoption to God.

The doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld.”

Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.” 28 Thomas answered him, “My Lord and my God!” Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? 

Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Jesus includes us today.

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Jesus said to them, “Children, do you have any fish?” They answered him, “No.”

He said to them, “Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some.” So they cast it, and now they were not able to haul it in, because of the quantity of fish.

Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” Now none of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and so with the fish. This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead.

He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” 

Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep."

This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true. Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

Abba,


We always ask Your Blessings.

And in Jesus, we walk with Eyes of Faith. Believing All Things are Possible with Jesus Christ. In all seasons of Life.

Bless us this Season of Lent. Fill us with encouragement of Your Holy Spirit in difficulties. Help us to be Lamplighters. Prayer is God's Power.

To have the mornings seek the Blessing like children seek Easter Eggs. Thank You for the People of God who send us to find more. Bless their Direction.

Help us in all areas of Life to be Aware of Your Directions. Being filled to help the people You have given us to be protected, assured, surrounded and filled when they are down. Knowing we will need this help in return.

Bless the Nations seeking Jesus. Thank You. Bless our Nation. Bless the Beloved of God asking more Heaven on earth. Jesus is God. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

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