Luke 12:29-31 ~ your Father knows you need these things

Jesus said, "Give us the Day!"

Ecclesiastes 9:10

"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might."

Paul explained this. Peter spoke of this.

John 13:9

“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!

Isaiah said, "Send me!"

Luke 12:29-31

"Do not seek what you will eat and what you will drink, and do not keep worrying. 

For all these things the nations of the world eagerly seek; but your Father knows that you need these things. 

But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added to you."

These Olive Trees in the Garden of Gethsemane have seen two millenniums.

Has mankind changed in their basic needs?

 Josephus records the Olive Trees being spared when Jerusalem became rubble in 70 A.D. These trees have probably seen more upheaval than peace. How will peace be obtained?

You see, reconciliation is great, but living together, working together, serving each other - now that involves some interesting dynamics!

Hospice tells me almost all families have "dynamics".

The dynamics of living together takes ongoing work.

Every one of us knows from experience that being reconciled, whether it is shrugs or quiet regrets, is not the same as living together. 

 It takes commitment to relationship, habits of healthy and fair communication, and especially keeping the relationship clean. 

All of us know that in living together, working together, little things can irritate, habits can unintentionally offend, communication in the negotiation of life can become harsh and undisciplined and we can end up regretting what we are saying and the relationship becomes unwound. 

We know this happens when people are compatible, the personalities fit perfectly together.

Just imagine the dynamics when sinful people try to get alone with a holy God who is a consuming fire. 

The wash basin, which was the next piece of furniture after the bronze altar of sacrifice had to do with the dynamics of keeping the relationship with God clean.

In the small things in life. 

A lamp is mended. A fan is repaired. Small acts of kindness giving the heart a chance to be grateful. A son returns home. A wash basin is restored. God has a way of making us understand, how deeply God Understands. How warm Jesus heals with compassion. So many times Jesus had more to say than just, "He healed them all." Jesus intended us to get off the beaten, regular, dog paths of life to find Jesus in the quiet places Jesus sometimes calls, "lonely places." Jesus sends His healed people to the priest. Then we realize a story of faith is going to feed many, many, many people. 

Jesus sends the Healed blind man to the Pool of Siloam. Sent. Jesus feeds the multitudes, today and all through the millenniums.



Exodus 30
17 Then the Lord said to Moses, 18 “Make a bronze basin, with its bronze stand, for washing. Place it between the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and put water in it. 19 Aaron and his sons are to wash their hands and feet with water from it. 20 Whenever they enter the Tent of Meeting, they shall wash with water so that they will not die. 

Also, when they approach the altar to minister by presenting an offering made to the Lord by fire, 21 they shall wash their hands and feet so that they will not die. This is to be a lasting ordinance for Aaron and his descendants for the generations to come.”

How will we sweep away what clutters us?

Jesus knew His disciples had come to a time of decision. 

Some wanted seats in Heaven. They had almost all left upon finding Jesus wanted them to eat His Body and Blood.

The things God asks of people are difficult. 

Only faith in God gets us by. Humans change, fade and wither. God wants us to develop our skill to see further than the immediate journey.

John 9:4
"We must work the works of Him who sent Me as long as it is day; 

night is coming when no one can work."

Jesus said Give us the Day.

Ecclesiastes 9:10
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might."

Paul explained this. Peter spoke of this.

John 13:9
“Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!

Isaiah said, "Send me!"

So many people fear God will send them forth to scary places.
God is with us every day and all the time.

Matthew 8:27

The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey Him!”

Matthew 7:25

The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall because it had its foundation on the rock.

Matthew 8:26

He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm.

Acts 2:2

Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.

There isn't a comma in Acts 2:2. God is saying He is this close to us.

Ruth 1:16-17
And Ruth said, 

Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: 

for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: 

thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: 

Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried:

 The LORD do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.

John 6:68

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? 

You have the Words of eternal life."

For millenniums, people have looked, prayed, trusted God with His guidance. 

Including the ancestry of Jesus.

Ruth knew Naomi would be apart from her. God tells us:

Abba, Father God,

Help us to seek You First.

In Jesus, we are satisfied and Joyful in Your Strength.

Bless those we Love to live, "Give us this day!"

And in Your Joy and Strength 

know Your Love and Gracious Mercy.

Jesus gave His Father and our Father 

a new Heaven and a new earth.

In Jesus Christ

 we are bold to pray impudently as the friend, we implore with Hope:

Yes, we do.

Jesus Christ, Wonderful Jesus, Savior

Entreat me not to leave Thee

 We will never want to return from following after Thee: 

You have the Eternal Words of Life.

Like Thomas said when Thomas saw Lazarus Live:

For whither Thou goest, I will go

And when Jesus gave us John 14,

We know Jesus prepares a place for us.

My father, Daddy, dreamed 80 times

 of coming to guide my mother to Heaven.

My daddy recognized in God's Amazing House 

- he said he spent more than he knew days looking for the front door, 

he recognized our home as within God's Huge Home.

God does indeed make a Place for us. Home.

 And where Thou lodgest, I will Lodge.

We say to Jesus with all our hearts, dwell in us. Live in us, Jesus.

Thy people shall be my people, and Thy Son Jesus, my God

Jesus saves the world.

Jesus saves me.

Jesus saves you and those you love.

Jesus saves the world.

 

Where Thou LIVE, will I LIVE, 

and there will I be Eternally

Our Jesus LORD do so to me, and more also,

 if ought but death depart

 from me in Thee and mine.

For this reason 

I bow my knees before the Father, 

from whom every family in heaven and on earth

 is named, 

According to the riches of His glory He may grant you 

to be strengthened with power through His Spirit 

in your inner being

so that Christ may 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 

surpassing knowledge

May you be filled with

 all 

the Fullness of God.

Now to Jesus Christ, Wonderful, Savior, God's Only Son

 He is able to do far more abundantly

 than all that we ask or imagine,

According to the Power at work within us, 

To Jesus Christ be glory in the Church 

for His Glory to Dwell in us

His Living Word Jesus Christ, God Manifest

His Love

His Joy

His Mercy

His Protection

in each soul

in each family

in each friend

Elliott to be healed

in each Church

in each City

in our Nation

in the Nations of His Good Creation, the earth.

And in Christ Jesus 

Throughout all generations, 

forever and ever. 

Amen.

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Matthew 20:1-16 ~ Generosity

Shine - Collective Soul

Matthew 20:1-16 

¹ “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ² After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius^{[a day's wages for a laborer}} a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³ And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, ⁴ and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ ⁵ So they went.

Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ⁶ And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ ⁷ They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ 

He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’

⁸ And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ ⁹ And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. ¹⁰ Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius.

¹¹ And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, ¹² saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’ 

¹³ But he replied to one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴ Take what belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. ¹⁵ Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’ 

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



So the last will be first, and the first last.

Jesus told us the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. 

He didn't mean just for that moment. Jesus was telling us when we confess with our mouths and believe with our hearts - we have eternal life. Beginning ..... stop watch click...... at believing. 

All of God's promises are for us - now.

Life isn't Perfect.
Jacob having the full weight of God's blessings behind him 

- Yet a lot of Jacob's life looked pretty similar to Job. It was within Jacob's soul that God's blessings lived, multiplied and were given out. Jacob lived His promises.

Hiring people to make Mother's home up to selling is not just cleaning, sorting, memories, sorrow, joy, it's meeting with the people who bid and keeping them going and doing the job

well, on time, on budget, completely and caring for my entire family.

Who else would be first and last in God's blessings? 

Jesus' own brothers.

Jesus knew they would shine. 

Just as God knew Gideon would shine as well. It is fairly, understatement, important to treat people like they have it within them to Shine. 

Pray hard - with hope. God is still at work today. An uncle of mine found the Lord at age 78. Dancing in Heaven, yes, my grandmother would.

John 7:1-5      Jesus' brothers, act like people, want Him to see some trouble.

After this, Jesus went around in Galilee, purposely staying away from Judea because the Jews there were waiting to take his life. But when the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near, Jesus' brothers said to him, "You ought to leave here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may see the miracles you do. No one who wants to become a public figure acts in secret. Since you are doing these things, show yourself to the world." For even his own brothers did not believe in him.

Matthew 12:46-50 

After Jesus declared the ruling people of the temple to be vile and evil, His brothers want the trouble to die down. In reality, they didn't want that much trouble for any of them.

While Jesus was still talking to the crowd, his mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to him. Someone told him, "Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to you.

"He replied to him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

Mark 6:3

Jesus records how his brothers think of Him; Jesus' family is seen by others as a very loving, all of a kind, family.

His family didn't whitewash all the aspects. They lived who they really were. Even when they were last in Jesus' daily life, they were part of His Plan, Hope and Future.

"Where did this man get these things?" they asked. "What's this wisdom that has been given him, that he even does miracles! Isn't this the carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him. Jesus said to them, "Only in his hometown, among his relatives and in his own house is a prophet without honor."

This is Jesus loving His brother in clear light. He understands the situation, not whitewashing it. So, 1 Corinthians 13 tells us love conquers all.

1 Corinthians 9:5

Paul tells us of Jesus' brothers.

Don't we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord's brothers and Cephas [Peter]?

The Books of the Bible, James and Jude are Jesus' brothers that their Nazareth hometown saw them as a seamless family. They have Jesus dwell with them. As we can do this today.

Acts 1:14
They all joined together constantly in prayer, along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brothers.

Hebrews 2:10-12, Jesus speaks of us as His brothers, but also His own brothers.

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. He says,
"I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the presence of the congregation I will sing your praises."

I pray the Psalms. Fly into the Hands of God.  I'm placing the one I love in His Hands.

Psalm 87

¹ On the holy mount stands the city He founded;

² The LORD loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
³ Glorious things of you are spoken,
O city of God.
Selah

⁴ Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush—
“This one was born there,” they say.
⁵ And of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born in her”;
for the Most High himself will establish her.
⁶ The LORD records as he registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.”
Selah

⁷ Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”

1 Corinthians 13:13

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. 

And the greatest of these is love.

Jesus is God's Delight.

 Jesus has Joy. 

In His Blessings, Jesus wants to give Blessings. 

In studying prayer, people who have had a blessing, are very capable of praying this received blessing on to others.  We are fully capable of blessing each other with Prayer.

Abba, Father God,

Our Abba, as we open our hands to You in Prayer. 

We consider by grace we have been saved through faith. 

And this is not our own doing; it is the gift of God.

Help us always to seek Your First, Jesus Christ.

In this comfort and Love, help us be able to know

You will love and dwell with those we Love.

Having gifts, let us use them: in proportion to our faith. 

Even the Disciples had fear. 

The huge change is going on in my family. It's just a very emotional time,

please pray for peace with our family.  Edward has done an awful lot to be very supportive.

 Please pray for peace during this time.

My dear friend told me, there isn't really a great emotion in this. We go on being transparent, asking for help, being in Father God and ask His Help. Peace within the family.

We thank You for hearing our Prayers, Abba. 

We will ask for each day, each opportunity, each decision, every day - Father God who gives generously to all without reproach, we will ask for Wisdom and to see Your Willingness and it will be given to Your Beloved.

We pray this for our concerns, our lives, our hopes. We pray this over the people we love. The People You have given us. Healing, life, hearing, eyes, provision, opportunities. Hope, Joy, Love. Protection. And for this Nation to love You more. 

And for the Beloved of God - everywhere to have this of You, their Father.

Always we want to Listen to Jesus.

Bless this Nation with mercy and tolerance, remembering the historic anger and ill-logic

following Pandemics. The sweep of History shows Pandemics have recovery.

Lord Jesus we ask Your Love and Help.

Amen in His Highest Name

Ephesians 3:14-21

14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 

from whom 

every family 

in heaven and on earth is named, 

That according to the riches of His glory 

He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit 

in your inner being, 

17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith

—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 

18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints 

what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 

19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, 

that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 

20 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,

 21 to Him be glory in the church 

and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. 

Amen.

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Matthew 13:47-58 ~ Gathered

Matthew 13:47-58

47 “Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea 

and gathered fish of every kind.

48 When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into containers but threw away the bad. 

49 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous 50 and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

51 “Have you understood all these things?” 

They said to him, “Yes.”

52 And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

53 And when Jesus had finished these parables, he went away from there, 54 and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, “Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works? 55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas? 56 And are not all his sisters with us? Where then did this man get all these things?”

57 And they took offense at him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.” 58 And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.



Joel 3:
14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and moon grow dark And the stars lose their brightness

What shall shine?

Daniel 12
3 And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.



Romans 14
11 For it is written, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY TONGUE SHALL GIVE PRAISE TO GOD." 12 So then each one of us will give an account of himself to God.

Isaiah 45
22 "Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other. 23"I have sworn by Myself, The word has gone forth from My mouth in righteousness And will not turn back, That to Me every knee will bow, every tongue will swear allegiance. 

24 "They will say of Me, 'Only in the LORD are righteousness and strength.' Men will come to Him, And all who were angry at Him will be put to shame.

Philippians 2:10

At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth 

Hebrews 6:13

When God made his promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for Him to swear by, He swore by Himself 

Abba, Father God,

In seeking You first, help us not to grow weary in doing good.

Now may You, Lord of peace, Himself give us peace at all times in every way.

Give Your Love and Joy to those we Love.

Strengthen family and friends in Your Love.

The Lord be with us all.

Let love be genuine

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with us all.

May the Blessing of God be upon our Nation,

for those who seek His Love and Presence

and may the world recognize

the fullness of God's own Good Creation

is the Lord God.

In the Highest Name of Jesus we lift our cares to Him, He cares for us so.

God Bless us all.

Amen.

Let all of Creation sing with me now

Fill up the Heavens, let His Glory Resound

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