Deuteronomy 7:7 ~ set His affection on you

 

Deuteronomy 7:7

The LORD did not set his affection on you 

                   and choose you 

because you were more numerous than other peoples, 

                                                  for you were the fewest of all peoples.

An odd choice for a Christian Blog. Not exactly. This is the more Modern Message of Luke 1, 2 

and Matthew 1. It's all of us dealing with circumstances we didn't plan. This is adapting and coping.

Psalm 47

Clap your hands, all peoples!

Shout to God with loud songs of joy!

2 For the Lord, the Most High, is terrible,

a great king over all the earth.

3 He subdued peoples under us,

and nations under our feet.

4 He chose our heritage for us,

the pride of Jacob whom he loves. 

Selah

5 God has gone up with a shout,

the Lord with the sound of a trumpet.

6 Sing praises to God, sing praises!

Sing praises to our King, sing praises!

7 For God is the king of all the earth;

sing praises with a psalm!

8 God reigns over the nations;

God sits on His Holy Throne.

9 The princes of the peoples gather

as the people of the God of Abraham.

For the shields of the earth belong to God;

He is highly exalted!

George Carlin famously said, "God can throw a boat right over a hedge."

I like David's Testimony better:

Psalm 18:29 

For by You I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

Psalm 18:33

He makes my feet like those of a deer and stations me upon the heights.

Psalm 40:2

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

Psalm 118:10

All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

People are beginning to wake up to the outrageousness of The Daily Damage Report.

The Historical mindset of the human population after and during intense emotions of the Pandemic.

How are we doing this? 

As a Christian, I'd say the sudden interest in Pro-Life is the belief in our future. Believing we have something in Life today worth bringing to the young and innocent. And encouraged by the sudden up sweep in the numbers of the youth for Pro-Life. Be encouraged to see the Facebook banners of the House of Representatives supporting Pro-Life. Encouraged by state's rights supporting the pre-born to have Life.

When we find new and good news on the pre-born. We see belief in Life and the Hope and Future.

Outrageousness Identified as Pandemic Brain

Outrageousness is suddenly being realized to be outrageous. Alleluia.

I'm encouraged to hear people talk about the courageousness of speaking up. I'm encouraged I see the rude being ignored and those interested in discussion having discussion. We are all being bravely aware we have to prevail with honest speech. Conversations continue with gracious mercy.

We have more good news. 

The NBA will play the National Anthem. We will find Unity in our Heritage. Freedom of Speech. Freedom of Hope. 

A ray of Hope in the defeat of the Daily Damage Report.

God Shed His Grace on Thee.

And crown thy good with brotherhood. From sea to shining sea!

Please, God, Amen.

Psalm 40:2

He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm.

For me, to see Good News now is important.  I've signed Hospice papers twice in my life. And I know my mother would be far happier in Heaven and after years and decades of illness. We've seen and witnessed and know people who have suddenly died of Covid. Thank God, my younger brother got his vaccine today due to a co-morbidity.  But loss of a regular and expected death, is harder when everyone is enveloped in some sadness.

Seeing Good News is Important. We are about to have a few days of a blast of regular weather. And then, we will have spring. Spring is coming. Because my heart hurts, and I write about God, one has to be very honest. And not fake I'm Ok. When we look at God, we present ourselves as we are. Because hiding from God, like Adam did, isn't to believe God is good and capable of dealing with our mess.

God is clear about how He feels about messy life.

 His own Son was sent to be born to a yet unwed Mother. Put out on a donkey to ride 80 miles to take care of taxes to foreign authority of the Roman Empire. Riding a donkey when women died of childbirth, regularly. Staying with relatives for months. Born to a foster father who considered a quick and quiet divorce.

Without question, this is the great mystery of our faith: Christ  appeared, revealed in the flesh, was vindicated by the Spirit,  seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.

We place our belief God's plans are mysterious. These bodies will now know mess, upset and upheaval. We feel in our Spirit the vindication of God's Own Goodness and Love, we believe in His Heavenly Host, we see the world believes even today. And we know deeply we will be taken to His Glory.

We are not so poor in hopes of glory, when we believe in His Good News.

God tells us Jesus is the Exact Nature of God. 

Yes. God loves us so much, Aaron is invited to the Holy of Holies to sprinkle blood. Father God expects a mess.  God isn't placing His own Son as well as Solomon, another example of God. God endangers Mary in the 80-mile donkey ride, explaining God to those generations who lost women they loved to childbirth.  God allows His Precious Child in the cold of a barn, to be born. Our God lets a Foster Father who didn't marry Mary to attend His Child.  Father God allows the Disciples of Good Friday experience breakfast cooked by Jesus in John 21. 

The Exact Nature of God. His Steadfast Love endures forever.

Abba, Father God,

We believe in the Sunshine, when the sun does not shine.

Joy to the world, the Lord is come.

Let earth receive her King

Let every heart prepare Him room

Rescue and help for the 6 dead and 130 car pile up in Ft. Worth

And heaven and nature sing

And heaven and nature sing

And heaven and heaven and nature sing

He rules the world with truth and grace

And makes the nations prove

The Glories of His Righteousness

And wonders of His love

And wonders of His love

Naples, Italy world-wide Baptisms

And wonders, wonders of His love

And wonders, wonders of His love

And wonders, wonders of His love

 

Joy to the world

The wonders of Your love

The wonders of Your love

The wonders of Your love

He rules the world with truth and grace

And makes the nations sing

The Glories of His Righteousness

Psalm 115:14-15

May the Lord cause you to flourish,

    both you and your children.

May you be blessed by the Lord,

    the Maker of heaven and earth.

Abba, Father God,

Help this Year to be our Hearts Pleasing to You.

Help us to seek You First.

And see more Heaven on earth.

Bless our Loved Ones with daily Love Comforting them

from Your Holy Spirit.

Bless Elliott with all Your Willing Healing.

We lift up all our concerns in Seeking You First.

Please bless us with Your Blessing

to feel Your Love and Be Living in Hope

and Optimism. Even in difficulty. 

Let us see, daily, the Glories of the Lord our Father God.

Bless this Nation in Justice and Mercy.

Let us see Your Blessing!

Our Recovery from Pandemic Outrageous Minds

Courageous Kindness and Speaking Up.

Our Comfort is within as Jesus dwells in us.

The Give us this Day.

Amen in Jesus Christ. 

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

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Psalm 66 ~ Sing the Glory of His Name

Psalm 66

Shout for joy to God, all the earth;

2 sing the glory of His Name;

give to Him glorious praise!

3 Say to God, “How awesome are your deeds!

So great is your power that your enemies come cringing to you.

4 All the earth worships you

and sings praises to you;

they sing praises to Your Name.” 

Selah

5 Come and see what God has done:

He is awesome in His deeds toward the children of man.

6 He turned the sea into dry land;

they passed through the river on foot.

There did we rejoice in Him,

7 who rules by His might forever,

whose eyes keep watch on the nations—

Let not the rebellious exalt themselves. 

Selah

8 Bless our God, O peoples;

let the sound of His praise be heard,

who has kept our soul among the living

And has not let our feet slip.

10 For you, O God, have tested us;

You have tried us as silver is tried.

11 You brought us into the net;

you laid a crushing burden on our backs;

You let men ride over our heads;

we went through fire and through water;

Yet You have brought us out to a place of abundance.

13 I will come into Your house with burnt offerings;

I will perform my vows to You,

14 that which my lips uttered

and my mouth promised when I was in trouble.

15 I will offer to You burnt offerings of fattened animals,

with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams;

I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah

16 Come and hear, all you who fear God,

and 

I will tell what He has done for my soul.

17 I cried to Him with my mouth,

and high praise was on my tongue.

18 If I had cherished iniquity in my heart,

the Lord would not have listened.

19 But truly God has listened;

He has attended to the voice of my prayer.

20 Blessed be God,

because He has not rejected my prayer

or removed His steadfast Love from me!

Psalm 100

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!

2 Serve the Lord with gladness!

Come into His presence with singing!

Psalm 29 

1 Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, 

ascribe to the Lord glory and strength.

2 Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;

worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.

3 The voice of the Lord is over the waters;

the God of glory thunders,

the Lord, over many waters.

4 The voice of the Lord is powerful;

the voice of the Lord is full of Majesty.

John 16:24

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. 

Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

Father God asks us to be His Temple. To give Him proper thanks and worship. And we find we are fed. God is our Father. Going to be the Father's House feeds our soul.

The Scriptures tell us we will feel the warmth of the Jesus' Love. This is called setting our hearts ablaze. No wonder God uses fire to announce the presence of His Holy Spirit.

This is singing - in a form. Hearts are ablaze in Heaven. Hearts sing aloud.

John 3:16:

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:8

Whoever does not love does not know God because God is Love.

Philippians 2

God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father!

Matthew 8:17

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took up our infirmities and bore our diseases."

John 1

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 

2 He was with God in the beginning. 

3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 

4 In Him was Life, and that Life was the Light of all mankind. 

5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Mark 10:32

They were now on the way up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them. The disciples were filled with awe

Isaiah 40:31:

Those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. 

They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, 

they will walk and not be faint.

Have you attended a Funeral that you'd do anything not to attend. 

You'd hide in your closet all day. Sit in your bathroom. I know someone who drove to the Hospital, parked the car, went in from looking around, and said they couldn't because they went to the Hospital. 

Our daughter Isabelle died at 31 weeks gestation and was born smiling as if Heaven had opened for her and Jesus called her, "Beautiful Isabelle. Come to me and Live." The Joy on her face. All the friends gathered wept to see Isabelle. Not asleep in the Lord. Awake in Heaven.

The Funeral was so stunningly unhappy, the best part was being held tightly by my son. And to find both sons. Isabelle passed on to Heaven September 23. And in March of Spring Break the following year, we spent it all sitting quietly in her bedroom. One son cried, "Didn't God know we would have taken good care of her???"

We would have, no question. God did something far and away more Important and Better. I know this as a fact because I don't remember seeing more happiness on a sleeping baby, sweet smelling, soft skinned face. Joy simply radiated from Isabelle Claire Gardere.

I really don't have doubts about Heaven. I saw Aunt Clarice pass into Heaven, she left me a message, I thought she was wrong and repeated this for 18 years until Clarice, telling me Jesus was standing behind me, exactly happened. Sometimes to display the flaws in the memory, actually explains more. Jesus is amazingly part of every cell and nano, fitting molecules together.

Today, we agreed,  and I signed papers for my mother to go to Hospice.

We chose Faith Hospice and the Faith aspect made all the difference. The kindness and the questions of depth, warmth and sincerity. I will never forget.

Now according to Hospice and her GP

We will make my mother comfortable and prepare her for her Journey. My father had a dream at least 80 times about coming to meet my mother after decades of being apart and to journey to see Heaven. My parents honeymooned journeying all over the South, to Florida and up to Williamsburg. Their honeymoon decided the method and design for their first house. And many evenings they discussed all the conversations with great detail. The Journey was good.

The 80 times or more my father discussed his dream of Journeying with my mother to bring her to Heaven, proved to be true. My father died fairly young. Just as Jesus told Daddy. My mother spent decades in her last house, they owned together. And as the dream foretold, John and I would live very far apart.  Mother would love Dallas and still be there until her death, even though our family of 11 would all have moved or passed on. And also true - Mother ended up dating a neighbor for many years who had visited us in France. He was a widower, they met again by God's accidental meeting.

 Daddy said Mother would be old and we would be relieved for her to pass on due to illness. We always insisted this was incorrect and my father had Ultimate Peace and insisted He was right.  

My father described seeing their part of John 14. Father God's House with many, many rooms. Daddy said it was completely astonishing.  According to Daddy's dream, we all have a part of Father God's House and He will even put an intact Family House now a Jewish Youth Center, as it was loved for decades after their honeymoon. Daddy did not understand he was visiting a Heavenly Home. The house was exact in Heaven, as in earth.  Daddy said he was so very, exceedingly glad to find our house. 

Daddy said in guiding my mother to Heaven, he would see their home for the first time since being in Heaven.  Daddy said he and mother were to live together in Heaven. Daddy was always pleased God had given him this task. 

And this speaks volumes to forgiveness in divorce.

Galatians 5:22-23: 

The fruit of the Spirit is:

Love! Joy! Peace! Patience! Kindness! Goodness! Faithfulness! Gentleness and self-control! Against such things there is No law!

James 3:17

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere!

Jeremiah 29:11:

For I know the plans I have for you!” Declares the LORD, “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

Romans 5:8:

But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Philippians 4:8:

Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

Romans 8:28:

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Philippians 4:6:

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.

John 14

12“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do, because I am going to the Father. 13Whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it."

John 16:22

I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.

John 14:18

“I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you."

 

Romans 12:9

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

1 Timothy 1:5

The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 10:4

For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. 

As a result, all who believe in him are made right with God.

Revelation 21

And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, 4and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away."

 5And He who sits on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." And He said, "Write, for these words are faithful and true."

Abba, Father God, 

To live in Your Grace and Mercy

Knowing to put down the worries that were pointless and fruitless in the past.

In Jesus Christ, to have Your Grace and go forth. Forgiven of old worries.

To press on to Seek You First.

To daily include and invite, You, to dwell in me.

And in those I love, the people God has given me.

And be grateful.

To forgive those who have given Judgement, as I have judged. 

To be wiser, to rejoice.

Rejoice in faith, hope and Love and not be tossed by my doubts

and not tossed by doubts of others.

Hold tightly to Jesus Christ daily.

To be Blessed to ask more Heaven on earth.

To find more Heaven on earth.

Be more Heaven on earth.

To pray for good health for me,

I need prayers for rapid heartbeat for the first time since 2005.

This is uncomfortable and signals more exercise and less caffeine.

As we pray for all of us in Covid, with our concerns 

and the worries of others. So many people have allergies, colds,

coughs and sneezing without Covid. 

Believing, this is sympathy of the world for 

one another.

The Lord Jesus remember Elliott's miracle.

The hopes we put in knowing of Miracles of Yours

and Prayer moving Your hand.

We pray for those who are ill

and asked for prayer. Covering them

in the Willingness of Jesus. And His Love and Mercy for my mother.

Keep us in Jesus,

This Republic, the people of the Republic.

 The world needing kindness and a hope

of peace from this hugely stressful season.

We pray for the United States Congress to calm down.

And those having stress being involved there. We need you.

 It will turn out well, we have read the Last Page of the Bible and this ends well.

238 Accomplishments requires Mercy.

Our Governors and Legislatures for help and wisdom.

Giving Thanks to those keeping Mercy and Justice.

Let's agree in prayer, Pandemic

causes willy-nilly barbarism brain thoughts that end.

And we pray Jesus for go faster, please.

He understands. 

We arrive in prayer just as we really are.

Keeping the joyful thought of Eighty percent of

people pray. And not worrying too much about this poll

or that poll. God forgives the sin of our youth, and

knowing the Church has always welcomed

those of years in the pews for a long time.

God doesn't worry too much about the people who Pray.

His Love is flowing, now, for us

and the people who will come to a prayer and faith life.

His Mercy Renews Daily.

Thank God,

Thank God,

Thank Jesus.

Amen with prayer in Jesus

and Your Righteousness.

Please Availeth this one much.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †

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