Micah 6 ~ Love Kindness

  

 

Micah 6

 

Hear what the Lord says:

Arise, plead your case before the mountains,

    and let the hills hear your voice.

2 Hear, you mountains, the indictment of the Lord,

    and you enduring foundations of the earth,

for the Lord has an indictment against his people,

    and he will contend with Israel.

3 “O my people, what have I done to you?

    How have I wearied you? Answer me!

4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt

    and redeemed you from the house of slavery,

and I sent before you Moses,

    Aaron, and Miriam.

5 O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised,

    and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him,

and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,

    that you may know the righteous acts of the Lord.”

6 “With what shall I come before the Lord,

    and bow myself before God on high?

Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,

    with calves a year old?

7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams,

    with ten thousands of rivers of oil?

Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression,

    the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?”

8 He has told you, O man, what is good;and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

 The voice of the Lord cries to the city—

    and it is sound wisdom to fear your name:

“Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!

10     Can I forget any longer the treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked,

    and the scant measure that is accursed?

11 Shall I acquit the man with wicked scales

    and with a bag of deceitful weights?

12 Your rich men are full of violence;

    your inhabitants speak lies,

    and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

13 Therefore I strike you with a grievous blow,

    making you desolate because of your sins.

14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied,

    and there shall be hunger within you;

you shall put away, but not preserve,

    and what you preserve I will give to the sword.

15 You shall sow, but not reap;

    you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;

    you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.

16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri,

    and all the works of the house of Ahab;

    and you have walked in their counsels,

that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing;

    so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”

Yes, we would all agree, all of our Churches have seen quite a lot of extensive and sincere prayer.

What has seen as much prayer?

People always comfort themselves about prayer in school, with the truth. “Because there are tests in school, there will always be Prayer!”  And really, the truth is, you began by having all types of prayer for you.

Psalm 139 

And your right hand shall hold me. 

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night,” 

even the darkness is not dark to you; 

 the night is bright as the day, for darkness is as light with you. 

 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. 

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. 

My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, 

 intricately woven in the depths of the earth. 

Your eyes saw my unformed substance; 

in your book were written, every one of them,

 the days that were formed for me, 

 when as yet there was none of them. 

 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! 

 How vast is the sum of them! 

If I would count them, they are more than the sand.

 I awake, and I am still with you.

Nothing is more prayed over than the child in the womb. Surely, the Hand and Heart of God turns to the innocence of new Life. A newly formed beating heart. Does the child dance within? Is the child active? What is the child doing. An unborn child has an outstanding, amazing amount of prayer from all the family.

Innocence and Prayer.

Families tend to have centuries of the same work. And in our family, we tend to have Ministers and Priests. We've seen an amazing amount of, 50 years of more private Minister comments. We all like to be 'in the know', we've seen Priests talk about their faith deserting them. And seen renewal with the belief God has to be the One in Charge. With startling and remarkable changes. Renewal.  

We need open hearts for the Renewal God would bring.

This is a time people feel overwhelmed. All of us.

One of the most Wonderous Comments living within me came from Bishop Sam Hulsey. Not everyone always agreed with Sam Hulsey, and that did not dampen his love of the Lord and watching to find His Grace and Mercy flow to fill all.

Sam Hulsey was always sincere, genuine and gracious. One of the comments made about Bishop Sam still delights me. “He always loved Beauty. Beautiful lawns. Well-behaved Children.” I adore this. I bet Jesus would applaud. We all do a lot of scampering like puppies, over every formerly clean surfaces. 

Now here is the absolute clincher for Bishop Sam. We were standing on a hill overlooking Dallas and it was October. There was storm leaving on one side of the Texas Huge Sky, and Beautiful colors of peace and prosperity on the other side of Texas' Sky.

Bishop Sam was being congratulated for finding some of the most Beautiful Scripture of the Word of God for the family wedding. Sam put his arm around me and smiled, the warmth of God Himself. And Bishop Sam said, “The Word of God is Promise. Promise of Eternal Redemption. Jesus has taken the Wrath of God we earned and covered the wrath of Judgement. We find what life is without His Love and His Promise, we take all of Scripture and understand what we have to Stand in His Love. Covered by the Grace of Jesus Christ.”

Raise your hand if you vote for this:

 making you desolate because of your sins.

14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied,

    and there shall be hunger within you;

you shall put away, but not preserve,

    and what you preserve I will give to the sword.

15 You shall sow, but not reap;

    you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;

    you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.

16 For you have kept the statutes of Omri,

    and all the works of the house of Ahab;

    and you have walked in their counsels,

that I may make you a desolation, and your inhabitants a hissing;

    so you shall bear the scorn of my people.”

I vote, quickly and permanently, to stay away from the statutes of Omri and the house of Ahab. 

Counsel away.

Is the Lord not going to fulfill His Word. The Lord's Word will never be empty. And the Lord God Almighty is Righteous in His Wisdom. We do well to Heed and Hear and Do the Word of the Lord.

This isn't a light word, this is the Willing Work of God. To believe the Word of God and those He has sent.

Hear what the Lord says:

 The voice of the Lord cries to the city—

Know the Righteous Acts of the Lord 

and it is sound wisdom

Will the Lord be pleased 

 enduring foundations of the earth

HE has told you, O man, what is good

and

what does the LORD require of you

to do Justice

and to Love Kindness

and

Walk Humbly with Your God

The voice of the Lord cries to the city—

    and it is sound wisdom

When Jesus was describing the Lord God, His Father, Who has delighted Jesus, Proverbs 8.

Jesus told us the Parable of Ten Talents, if we see God as mean and stingy, we have told God what we think. If we expect to see:

Hebrews 11:6

Without faith it is impossible to please Him, 

for he who comes to God must believe that He is 

and 

that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him

We can delete all of Micah 6 minus verse 8, however, then we aren't looking for the Sincerity of God's Nature. We are only looking for the Bread of Life, which used to irritate Jesus and cause Him to want to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, away from the 'blessing seekers'.

The Ten Talents Parable has 3 parts. We miss the point, not to read all three parts.

If we never knew the storm, how would we be Grateful to Jesus for calming the

wind and the waves?

Abba, Father,

Hosea 6:6

For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and acknowledgment of God rather than burnt offerings.   

      

      Psalms 5:7

But I, by your great love, can come into your house; in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple. 

      

      Deuteronomy 5:10

But showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments. 

      

      Deuteronomy 7:9

Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

      

      Psalms 6:4

Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love. 

      

      Psalms 36:7

How precious is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

      

      Jeremiah 33:11

The sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying, “Give thanks to the LORD Almighty, for the LORD is good; his love endures forever.” For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,' says the LORD.

      

      1 Chronicles 17:13

I will be his father, and he will be my son. I will never take my love away from him, as I took it away from your predecessor.

John describes God, as God of Love and Encouragement.

The Prophets agree and say the Word of God is fulfilled.

When we pray, the connection to You, Our Father, Abba,

is the Light of the world is Jesus Christ.

Jesus delights You.

Let those who suffer,

be received in Your mercy.

Praying for my mother who is unresponsive, after Covid

and in Hospice.

We want to see more Heaven on earth.

We pray for You to dwell in us.

And this would be only Heaven when Love surrounds us

we want those we Love to Live Forever.

More Love within those we Love and in our Families.

Micah 6:8.

We want to seek You first.

When we don't know all we should pray for,

Abba, we trust Your Goodness in Your Holy Spirit

to fill every dot and iota of our Prayers with You.

We seek You first, we ask.

Father, we want to please You

we pray for those we Love to know Your Love.

We need our Fellowship to be pleasing to You.

Our love for one another.

Jesus always knew to ask You, Father.

You save the world in Jesus Christ.

You are All in All.

Help us to Shepherd those You have Given.

And our words and meditations are pleasing in Your Sight.

Your Love Covers this Nation

Your Light has no boundaries and Lights mankind

we pray for Your Good Creation

to know more Heaven on earth.

In Your Good Will

the Fulfillment of Your Word

Lord Jesus Christ,

Amen.

Abba, Father,

In Jesus Christ, we will never give up.

Jesus the God of ALL.

Jesus, we pray Life and healing

Joy and Love in all of us.

Jesus, God of Encouragement.

Jesus, Hope and Future.

Jesus the Lord

saves the world

Amen.

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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Colossians 2 ~ having forgiven us all our trespasses †

Colossians 2

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, 

2 that their hearts may be encouraged, 

being knit together in love, 

to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding 

and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. 4 I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. 5 For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.

6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, 

7 rooted and built up in Him 

and established in the faith, 

just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

8 See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.

 9 For in Him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily, 10 and you have been filled in Him, who is the head of all rule and authority. 

11 In Him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ, 12 having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised with Him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised Him from the dead. 

13 And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with Him, 

having forgiven us all our trespasses, 

14 by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. 

15 He disarmed the rulers and authorities^{[Probably demonic rulers and authorities]} 

and put them to open shame,

 by triumphing over them in him ^{[that is, the cross]}.

16 Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, 19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

20 If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations— 21 “Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch” 22 (referring to things that all perish as they are used)—according to human precepts and teachings? 23 These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.


This Scripture passage tells us — clearly — in Jesus we are free from the law given rules, especially rules doing away with love. There is a contrast of the elemental spirits of the world. Let's compare and contrast. In Three Parts of this Scripture:

As we look at the perfection of HIS goals for us, let's not forget we are forgiven. We are to bring His will to earth.

You are filled in Jesus, 

Who is the Head of all rule and authority. You were also raised with Jesus through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised Jesus from the dead.

We are: 
to encourage,
knit together in love,
reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding,
proclaim the knowledge of God,
rejoicing Seeing others good order,
Live the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Abound in finding thanks to give.

God made Alive
forgives us all our trespasses,
by canceling the record of debt - stood against us with its legal demands.
This He set aside,
nailing it to the cross.



This passage talks about sensuous behavior.

We are in time period where we are alike in the Roman Empire and different. The Roman Empire was astonished to find people who would live goodness. What proclaim something politically incorrect? This was a surprise. The Good News was new.

Today, is it any surprise, so many Roman style buildings are built?

What are we subjected to in our television shows and music?  We can turn off our televisions not merely castigate them. 

We are river rocks, only when we allow ourselves to not get out of the flow.

Slavery — today exists. Being so in debt, will we ever clear it? All types of Debt.

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you

Do not handle, Do not taste, Do not touch

Sensuous mind, not holding fast to God.

During this part of the Roman era, the followers of Jesus Christ traveled with a wife. If we were to see an important change in the Roman Catholic Church, it would be the early Church said Peter and the Lord's brothers traveled with their wife. Marriage is encouraged in Genesis, immediately, and in the early Church.



Now, the other part of this passage is this:

Not according to Christ -
is merely human tradition
elemental spirits of the world — captivity to philosophy
empty deceit — delude you with plausible arguments.

Let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink — rules. Mandates.

God says study the Spirit for truth in Him. Spirits of judgment, look at with fairness, but not roll over acceptance. Demand mercy with Justice.  Growth requires correction from Him.

Substance belongs to Christ.

Let no one disqualify you

insisting on asceticism — the doctrine a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state by practicing self-denial, self-mortification, and the like. Instead, the Joy of the Lord is our Strength. God never said He is God of no. God said He is the way, truth and life. God of the Living.

Our God is not about hair shirts, masochism. Suffering is not holiness. Not His Plan. He is not about failure in trying to communicate. Turn the other cheek does not mean constantly accepting judgment. Humility requires seeing we are limited, still having gifts He gave us. To enjoy seeing gifts in others. He is Holy. Whole. Love yourself and love others. Tussles will happen; to dwell on them is not to forgive. Communication. Understanding. Give and take in gracious generosity.

Deceit frequently revolves the love of money. Which allows the comfort and glorification of self. Not about HIM. False philosophy proclaims self — going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head — God Himself. Listening is a trait of His.

We always see Jesus proclaiming mercy over sacrifice. Jesus tells us again and again the substance of Father God is righteousness, holiness and forgiveness. Jesus does not allow people to stone the woman in judgment. He fights for tolerance. Not of the sin, but of social injustice. Mean-spirited bloodlust. Jesus corrects the woman privately. In public and private, Jesus is about the Golden Rule.

In Jesus Christ, we are part of the Vine — The LORD God Almighty. Who wants HIS whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God.

Abba, Father, 


Abba, we see examples every day, this season, mankind and we, ourselves, have fallen. 

It is the beauty and wonder of seeing where You are there. We need Jesus.

We have marveled, saying to one another, 

“He commands even winds and water, and they obey him!”

Only Jesus.

We ask Your Willingness to Pouring Blessings upon ourselves, the ones we Love. This Nation. The Nations trusting You. 

For the Children of God calling upon Jesus for more Heaven on earth.

Help us to love Thee more clearly, see Thee more dearly. Help us 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.

Dwell in us.

Help us to be Joyful to You!

Help us to seek You first and see this the ones we Love.

We will finish well in Jesus.

We ask Your mercy on my mom, struggling with Covid.

We ask this for those we Love.

In Jesus Christ, we ask in Jesus and 

we will remain in You. Amen.

 

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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