Psalm 97 ~ Give Thanks

Psalm 97

The Lord reigns, 

Let the earth rejoice;

    let the many coastlands be glad!

2 Clouds and thick darkness are all around Him;

    righteousness and justice are the foundation of His throne.

3 Fire goes before Him

    and burns up His adversaries all around.

This Gif lightning started off as pink, but went white. 

We had pink, only, this afternoon!

4 His lightnings light up the world;

    the earth sees and trembles.

5 The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,

    before the Lord of all the earth.

6 The heavens proclaim his righteousness,

    and all the peoples see his glory.

7 All worshipers of images are put to shame,

    who make their boast in worthless idols;

    worship him, all you gods!

8 Zion hears and is glad,

    and the daughters of Judah rejoice,

    because of your judgments, O Lord.

9 For you, O Lord, are most high over all the earth;

    you are exalted far above all gods.

10 O you who love the Lord, hate evil!

    He preserves the lives of his saints;

  He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Light is sown for the righteous,

    and joy for the upright in heart.

12 Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous,

    and give thanks to His holy name!

Smile and Wave at Sam Houston's Statue

Sam was for peace.

All the time.

Houston is named for Sam!

Our "There and Back Again" began at 4:30 this morning going to Dallas attending to my mother's house repairs. We saw the sunrise. And thrilled finding the rain was holding off. Blue skies instead. Spring in Texas. Rain has been plentiful in May. Beautiful. A great early, early morning Highway ride.

The Storm was just hitting downtown Dallas and the glass and interior lights were glowing.

Then the contractor decided not to complete the work. 

And the other contractor was right on time and spit spot. Trip was pointless? God is in charge! We had breakfast in a favorite Dallas spot. Saw family. Debated by text. Saw my mom. Wept some. Headed for home. Nothing better than Home after that.

Coming home we saw blue skies, then some heavy fog turning rolling Central Texas hills into flatland with clouds making the vistas look like North Carolina's smokey mountains.

 Real beauty. Privileged. God having some experimentation with scenery!

Turning into our street the vast, gigantic dark, dark grey almost black skies, gave way to sunlight in the heavy rain. Beautiful to see - all- of the day.

What is the rarest color of lightning?

Yellow lightning is uncommon; however, they tend to be cooler than the blue, lilac and white. They're caused to due to a high concentration of dust in the air. And is an indication of a dry thunderstorm with low-precipitation. White lightning is the hottest, and literally, all bolts radiate white color.

When lightning strikes, different particles will scatter this light and cause the strike to appear as blue, pink, purple, white or even a brown-ish tint.

Edward and I arrived home, we sat watching part of the storm. Drank hot tea. Every lightning bolt was pink as a rose.  The room filled with pink rose colored lightning.  I moved to sit away from the window and watch face on from the couch!

Then the lightning stopped, suddenly the sky was green. 

A green sky indicates a severe storm producing tornadoes and damaging hail, a green sky does not guarantee severe weather. 

Then the green departed and our sky had some Champagne Golden. And this is a thunderstorm filtering through the clouds of sunset. Marvelous.

And it's time to pray for Texas again. 

We have Flash Flood Warnings near Houston, while Dallas has the Trinity River in some flood stages trying out the Levies.  The Dallas Rivers flow south where we are having big rain.

Abba, our Father,

We ask for Your Blessings.

Thank You for the gift of Psalm 97 today. To read of Your Glory .

 To be swept in Your Glory. Thank You.

Living water of Jesus flow unendingly as Love. 

To be encouraged and helped as we do Your Willing Plan You do have for us all.

To know as Jesus spoke of Living Water and gave You a new Heaven and a new earth, we find Your Throne in Your Kingdom by walking beside the shining water leading to Your Home.

Flowing, filling, seeping in all areas of our heart and with all our soul and with all our mind, for ourselves and the ones we Love. Filling us.

As we are on Your Path, we ask Your help to stay on the Path. 

We ask Your Love to know the daily steps. 

And looking back on our lives, knowing we present our Soul to You.

The Blessings of Jesus healing us and holding us. His Good will and Healing be present in peace

for His Mercy. Love and Answered prayer for Elliott, Dee and our prayers for Elliott. 

Blessings to know Jesus and Your Word. To be comforted by You. 

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Blessed in Jesus and His Name flow over our Nation and to the believers, today and tomorrow of the world.  To all of His Children all over His Good Creation.

Please give Texas Mercy to not have floods anymore!!!

Amen in Jesus.

Amen and Ament

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Hebrews 4:12 ~ Heart

Hebrews 4:12

For the word of God is living and active, 

sharper than any two-edged sword, 

piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, 

of joints and of marrow, 

and discerning the thoughts 

and intentions of the heart.

Sometimes the Word of God leaps ahead of you, and everything God speaks ties together. Superseding all your striving and you must be still and know God.

Isaiah 35:6 

Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. 

Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert.

When we read Scripture, say The Book of Revelation Chapters 1 and 2, briefly considering all 7 Churches God speaks of. You will see verse 91 and I will see verse 131. Yet, this is the Word of God and feeds us where we are. This is why the Gospel accounts are not merely repeats and instead explain man's brief time on earth considering Father God and His Gift of Life.

John meets Jesus 60 years later, leaving on a Sunday afternoon as the walls melt and John is face to face with Jesus. Jesus is the Comfort of God to us. Comforter. Helper. Jesus helps us all uniquely as He healed on earth. John's astonishment is met with Jesus moving on to the Mission of saving the world in Jesus Christ. Was this comforting to John? Probably. Jesus is tailoring the Most High God's Universal Plan of Salvation to John's understanding of the Eternal and Jesus. Would we necessarily be comforted? No. But John has Help and Comfort. Why would we think so? God the Almighty's Plan would be far larger than anything we know. Yet, God upholds the Universe with His Word. Our God knows the Heavenly Host by Name. He is fully sufficient to Uphold the Universe, Fulfill His Word, All His Promises and comfort us individually.

Jesus moves on to John acting as Jesus' Helper. And they begin to explain what to say to the 7 fragmented Churches.

Jesus is thinking of the end of days. Jesus is speaking with John who understands which of the 7 earthly Churches have challenges, opportunities and areas of growth. John is in awe and in Hope and with the Future. Today.

Jesus is not only doing the impossibility of the Red Sea parting, the 600,000 Children of the Exodus Fed, the 5000 fed and the Millenniums knowing of this Grace, Jesus is speaking to us Today.

The Seven Churches are the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. You might be Sardis today or Ephesus next week.  You are the Temple of God. And you might not be getting along with your cousin, your mom or dad, sibling or spouse, but they are and you are Temples of God when Jesus dwells in you. Ask Jesus to dwell in you.

John explains and proclaims God. God is Love. God isn't feeling loving today. God isn't favoring you more today. Our God is Love. My God is always Love.Our  God's Love is more than we understand. God's Love Upholds the Universe and offers you, as a Child of God, doing God's Love and Joy, Eternity. God's Love reaches to one person and covers all His Plan.

Jesus tells us about the 7 Churches.

John 17:13-23

Now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

Jesus is telling us of differences and separation. And Jesus Overcomes. Jesus seeks for us to Live in His New Commandment - To Love One Another. Jesus makes us understand we do our best and the forces of good and evil in life will be the Prodigal Son's story. Jesus prays for us to enjoy ourselves and find Joy in God's Strength. 

Solomon, briefly, had God. And Solomon put all his eggs in his own wisdom and pleasure. Solomon went up to try to get God to accept Solomon's terms and Solomon found bitterness and unhappiness while demanding God give Solomon what Solomon wanted.

Jesus makes this clear.  Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. Providing all things to be made new in Jesus. To live with Hope and a Future. To Pray with Hope. Jesus just asks we act in Love. Let Love be Sincere. Let Love be our greatest debt to one another. Jesus asks us to Love ourselves and God and let this Love spill over to such depth, we feel this love from each other.

Jesus, John reported, had so much going on in His Life, we couldn't possibly record Jesus each day.  Jesus has Joy. Our Jesus asks us to Live for God to be our Hope and Future.

Abba, Father God,

Like the Book of Hebrews, the 11th Chapter, the quotes about faith with Gladness, Happiness, go on and on. More than we can know or imagine.

Help us to Seek You first.

May the Word of God living in us,

 Strengthen us in 

all Goodness.

In the Name of Jesus for ourselves,

and those we love. Amen.

So the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness

and praise spring up before all nations.

Jesus bless Elliott with Your Willing Healing!

Please

Father God help us to fill those we love with renewed hope for years ahead

 filled with love. 

We ask in the Highest name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Let the Amen be of His Will being the Exact Nature of 

Jesus Christ. 

Blessings for the Goodness of Your Will and Plan. Amen!

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Luke 18:1 ~ And He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart

Luke 18:1

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

and not lose heart.

Edward and I went out and had dinner. Just about everyone had removed their mask. And really this was a time in coming. How wonderfully good to breathe and look at all the people again!

Like the world news, here in Houston's 4th largest city, a Church friend from a decade past, went on a car trip to visit her grandchild, she returned home by car 10 hours and 700 miles later to die of Covid at age 80. Last Friday, 15 days ago.

The news we all have, personally, and in the media we call news, is hopeful and tempered with Pandemic brains. Facts can find danger or change. Swinging news. Tempered news. Opinion news. Jesus Christ calls Himself: the Way, the Truth and the Life.

We do this for ourselves every day. We have 'the comment' or we feel blue, then we look to support our emotion. Feeling elated and hopeful, we look for support to continue to feel encouraged. The weather is even a source for our changes and the variation from normal in the soaked South USA. Where I might add, drought was the long range forecast, usually accurate.

We are in a transitional period. People discuss a new normal. Change is normal, but worries looking at the weather are not the usual. We have been through a stay at home Pandemic. I was observing a swim party on my street and another gathering too. Not what we have seen for the last set of two years.  And as the swim party was ending, the party goers looked more stressed than relaxed. More somber. The party face had been removed.

Historically, Pandemics take about 3 years before we find human beings being more rational.

We know this intellectually. The comments and the somber faces are a reflection of our own thoughts. The future events show promise and then the dire warnings. You can't be in a fairly severe car accident without being more cautious. 

The Gospels have similar Chapters, and yet there are dissimilarities. Because if you've been in trauma, the people remember bits and pieces of dramatic events. This is well known to people who gather facts after a dramatic set of emotional circumstances. Like police or investigators.

The Disciple John was asked in the Second Century if he approved of the other Gospels. John said he absolutely did. Remember John's 21st Chapter says if all the events surrounding Jesus were published, the world couldn't hold the books. And yet, the Gospels have different versions of similar days. It's all factual, but in gathering the Upper Room for the New Covenant, some were sent ahead. The Disciples went in different physical directions. And even at the Last Supper, no one except God saw all the Disciples having conversations. 

The news is emotional. We don't hope for emotional news, but the times would say we all have emotions. And as the Sam's store clerk told me, from the Holy Spirit, the day I won't forget, "Remember, every day, God is giving you what you require, it's up to us to see His Blessings." My son elbowed me, and said, "See."

The Light of the world is Jesus.

Nothing in darkness is dark to Him.

Jesus brings us Light.

Abba, Father God,

There was a man asking his friend, at midnight, for help for the traveling friend. Journey.

And his friend declined for the late hour. Impudently, the two friends had Discussion at the midnight hour. The friends, in relationship, had the steadfast Love to hammer out the needed events.

Jesus tells us He knows we think You are sometimes a Judge who doesn't move mountains. And then we feel You are not the Judge we hope You'd be. Jesus says He acknowledges this in our relationship with You. Jesus says always Pray and have Hope. Pray about everything. 

The Gates of Heaven are always open. The Keys Peter was given, that, has to give us pause to realize You help us in the Life You have given us. Numbers 6 has the Blessing Moses was told to give God's Children. God Lifts His Countenance Upon us. Graciously. God Smiles. God's face shines upon us. You, God, according to Proverbs 8, Delights in us. The New Testament calls us Beloved of God.

Father,

Please dwell in us.

Help us to seek You First.

Fill the Ones we Love with Jesus Christ.

Light of the world.

Light of mankind.

See us Pray for Israel.

Pray for our Nation,

Our Blessings and our Concerns.

Help us know, again, Your Heart for us.

Knowing Your Steadfast Love.

And with Your Love

we will do as You say, Overcome.

Blessed be the Name Jesus

and Blessed be the Father, Our Father,

Giving us Jesus, Your Exact Nature.

We won't forget to lift up Elliott and his healing to Your

Love and Word. Thank You, Elliott is doing better. Mend him totally, please.

In Jesus Christ,

Alleluia, Mercy is Given

Amen and Amen!

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