John 13 ~ you also are to love one another

 

Isaiah 41:9,10

9 I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners.

 I said, ‘You are My servant.’ I have chosen and not rejected you.

 10 Do not fear, for I am with you; 

do not be afraid, for I am your God. 

I will strengthen you; I will surely help you

I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: 

just as I have loved you, 

you also are to love one another.

John 7:38

"Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them." 

Titus 3:5

He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.

Genesis 1:2,3

And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Romans 12:2

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Genesis 1:20

And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky."

2 Corinthians 4:6

For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Abba, Father,

I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; 

I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.

The culmination from people giving their heart

the Pandemic increased their relationship with Christ Jesus.

Dwell in me, Father, God.

Know every aspect, shadow and cell in me.

Let Your Light be in Me.

Your Love make me see Blessings 

surrounding me of more Heaven

on earth.

Dwell in those I love.

Help them to live filled with Your Love.

Help us to Seek You First.

In Your Grace, we will finish well.

Bless this Nation 

during these difficult days.

Help us to live in Your Light

Your Love

Your Word.

Lord, help the people in the

heartbreak of Uvalde's

Elementary School.

The family, friends and coworkers.

The Church Family.

The Neighbors.

We ask Good News 

cover 2 10-year-old girls missing.

Help this mass violence seen

around the world, be stopped.

Bless Ukraine, in the May 2022,

they had no idea this carnage

would change Pandemic to looking better.

Bless the men, separated from their families

hoping for Freedom.

Bless the Ukrainians traveling

back to their homeland.

Thank God.

Bless Poland.

Let us take our Freedom

and offer You Thanks.

And turn our lives

into Gratitude

and the Joy Jesus tells us.

Save us from

what we hope to be

saved from.

Jesus the Lord.

Love and Mercy

Fill us and surround us.

Amen Amen Amen

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Proverbs 3:25-27 ~ Do not withhold good from its owner when it is in the power of your hand to do

Proverbs 3:25-27

25 Do not be afraid of sudden panic,

    or the storm of wickedness that will come.

26 Yahweh will be your confidence

    and guard your foot from capture.

27 Do not withhold good from its owner

    when it is in the power of your hand to do. 

When I became a Christian, a very dark Granbury, Texas night at Camp Crusis in March, I was turning 16 years old.  And the question was put under the light of The Presence of the Body of Christ in Transfigured, Consecrated Host.  Did I believe God? Did I believe Him to be Loving? Did I believe His Word is true and good? Did I believe the Bible is the Word of God. Jesus saves the world in His Love, when we believe. Yes and does. That night, all my safety walls of comfortable dodging came down. I felt the Light of God within me, He has not deserted me, even when I doubt and am blind or un-bright. Unenlightened.

And in God, I am a far more bold person, than I have been. Far more daring. Far more self-confident. Far more square.  Far more praying. Far more loving. Flawed. And a worrier. 

My sons both proclaim I was an outstanding Mother. And live far away. One son explained, people are not comfortable being defined by belief and faith.  We need more personal navigation.  And I agree. No one should have faith shoved down their throat like Jimmy Swaggart did as a child.  The story of Life is the Prodigal Son and the Willing and Running Father.

And being flawed. This Proverbs 3 verse about having sudden panic - applies to my life and my thoughts. I was the oldest child. My parents were only children. My grandmothers waited 6 years for a grandchild. I was ten by the time my only sibling began to speak in phrases. I have concerns. And a lot of my concerns are often valid. The world I live in rocks and shakes and in faith is steadied again.

About 2 pm, I was talking to the Out-of-Town Realtor about neighbors. I recalled one man in the best part of the City, said he'd lived in his house for 50 years, and the last 20 years have seen upwardly mobile people act really badly. So badly, he introduces himself as a working, trial attorney and tells them he will be very polite during their 5-year neighbor duration and hopes they will be polite as well.  

And we spoke of the neighbor of my mom's, who offered assistance to my 87-year-old mom, with live in caregiver, for groceries during Texas Snovid. And ditched her. He spoke with me last year with a European accent. And this year, did not. In fact, he never thanked me for the work we did on our properties, I did. And he won't speak to the Realtor and her husband.

Another neighbor is great and shows up when my mom is 88, is in a semi-vegetative condition and brings her roses.   Another neighbor is helping another neighbor tie yellow and blue ribbons on trees. Pandemic things.

Today, about 3 pm, I suddenly realized I was having Anxiety. And I began to pray, which is a pattern with me. Usually, I just use steel belts mentally and assure me I'm allowed to worry, so stop. It's not always very effective. Today was better.  I decided that I was not having a psychic moment and all would be ok. And I leaned into God and thought of The Chosen. The Angel Movie Production. I suddenly felt Joy all over again. God is my refuge. My safe harbor. My Father, He upholds me. For as worried as I felt, suddenly my reassurance level was far greater. Ahhhhh Antioch. 

So, about 4 pm, Edward started showing me his work. And suddenly, I wondered if there was something to worry about.  News is just weird these days. And I recalled my prayers about holding and being held by the Lord. I felt better again.

About 7 pm I realized the work on the house, had something quite wrong. And I felt all my anxieties rise back up. Probably I had a good 30 minutes of worry.  Something unique happened, I realized I'd done a lot of anxiety today. The answer is still Jesus.

What moves us to leave fear? The answer is Jesus. What moves us to retain a loving heart?

To do the good we can, what is available and God has given at hand. To cook a meal, to help with shared yards. Laugh when it is bad and it can be funny. To plot. Laughing at your own plots.  Amusing yourself. Be Angry. Don't bore people with your boring stories. Stop when stop is needed. 

The answer is Jesus. We don't have to be God. Jesus is God for us. Watch the movie, "The Chosen!"

Recently, I was asked do I realize I sound like God loves me More. He does. And He loves you More, Just as Much.  We are called to be Like MIB, having seen more, having loved, having endured, we believe God will save the world in Jesus Christ - Again.  We just all need reminders!

John 3:8 

 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.

We always think of Jesus asleep, yet really calming the Storm.

Calling the wind and waves to be calm.

Imagine the Disciples surrounded by fire. 

They had to believe Jesus meant them no harm.

The fire arrived and they had betrayed God.

To be part of the Holy Spirit, they had to Trust GOD to be God.

Remember Elijah. 

What would describe the tumultuous years better? 

1 Kings 19

11 Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” 

And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, 

but the LORD was not in the wind. 

After the wind there was an earthquake, 

but the LORD was not in the earthquake. 

12 After the earthquake there was a fire, but the LORD was not in the fire. 

And after the fire came a still, small voice. 

13When Elijah heard it, he wrapped his face in his cloak and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. 

Suddenly a voice came to him and said, “What are you doing here, Elijah?”

What are you doing here?

The work given to mankind is to believe the One He sent.

We believe we Love the Lord

and are close to His Heart

and we please Him.

Matthew 25

“His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! 

You have been faithful with a few things; 

I will put you in charge of many things. 

Come and share your master’s happiness!’ 

 22 “The man with two bags of gold also came. ‘Master,’ he said, ‘you entrusted me with two bags of gold; see, I have gained two more.’ 

 23 “His master replied, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant! 

You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. 

Come and share your master’s happiness!’

Elijah had conversations with God.

In Comfort

In Awe

In Obedience to His Prayers and Faith

In Faith, with Comfort, with Jesus in the wind

Jesus in the Fire,

we believe God.

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.

Jesus tells us Life is Joy.

What is the Master's Happiness?

  John 14:1

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me." 

  

John 14:15

If you love me, keep my commands.

  

John 14:16

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever

  

John 14:2

My Father's house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 

  

  John 15:1

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 

  

John 15:12

My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.  

  

John 16:33

  I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. 

  

John 16:23

In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.  

  

 John 17:3

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

  

John 17:20

My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message 

 

John 17:21

That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 

    

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

Abba, Father,

Blessed are the Merciful. They shall receive Mercy.

From Jesus, we ask this.

To receive fullness of Grace upon Grace in Jesus Christ.

Cover us in the Highest Name of Jesus

and we are saved.

 Abba, Father,

Thank You, Father God, for Your Wonders, half almost, of a New Year. 

You make all things new in Jesus Christ.

 Jesus tells us You are working and Jesus with You. 

We pray for Texas drought recovery.

We pray for heat wave and drought recovery across Your Good Creation.

And we ask for fewer weather incidents.

More of Your Holy Spirit this New Year, having You dwell in us 

God of Love. 

God of Encouragement.

For our history, our generations

have pleased You

Loving and Caring for our Children.

Look with us, and Bless us, Father.

Smile upon us, remembering

our heart to please our families

and You.

Forgive us when we err

in weakness, need and fear.

Strengthen us in Your Love.

Thanks be to Jesus, for His Grace upon Grace.

I will wait upon God all the days of my life and dwell in the House of Lord 

for His Word to me. Alleluia. 

This is as sure as the Promises of God for us in eternity who call upon Jesus.

 Speak the Word, God and I shall be well. 

Psalm 139:1-18,23-24

O Lord, you have searched me and known me!

2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;

    you discern my thoughts from afar.

3 You search out my path and my lying down

    and are acquainted with all my ways.

4 Even before a word is on my tongue,

    behold, O Lord, you know it altogether.

5 You hem me in, behind and before,

    and lay your hand upon me.

6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

    it is high; I cannot attain it.

7 Where shall I go from your Spirit?

    Or where shall I flee from your presence?

8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

    If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9 If I take the wings of the morning

    and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10 even there your hand shall lead me,

    and your right hand shall hold me.

11 If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

    and the light about me be night,”

12 even the darkness is not dark to you;

    the night is bright as the day,

    for darkness is as light with you.

13 For you formed my inward parts;

    you knitted me together in my mother's womb.

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

Wonderful are your works;

    my soul knows it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from you,

when I was being made in secret,

    intricately woven in the depths of the earth.

16 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.

17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!

    How vast is the sum of them!

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

    I awake, and I am still with you.

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!

    Try me and know my thoughts!

24 And see if there be any grievous way in me,

    and lead me in the way everlasting!

Abba, 

Your wrath is covered when we believe in Jesus.

Psalm 139 is the perfect reminder in all of Psalm 139.

Jesus helps us daily to find the path of Love and Encouragement.

Abba,

You have Blessed this Nation and believing Nations

with an Open Always Prayer Life

being who we are and believing You make us better and more loving.

We can look at Psalm 139

and remember the generations of people and families

doing all they can for their children in complex life

needing Jesus as Savior.

Your Word 

gives us Hope

Love

Faith

Encouragement

We can ask for Your Holy Spirit to know

all of us

every cell

every molecule

Just as water is a wonder

You have created us as Wonders of Your Creation

and as Your Holy Spirit

knows every thought, every molecule

every cell

the hairs on our head

we have been filled with the 

Light of Jesus Christ

and only the better

for Jesus to be the Light within us.

Our Prayer this year,

The Light of Heaven,

The Light of the world, God's Good Creation

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The Light of Nations

The Light of Mankind

will be

the Light filling this complex time

with more

of Your Love, Encouragement

Guidance, Mercy

Grace upon Grace.

We ask simply God

for Your Love

and Your Mercy

Your forbearance with this time.

Knowing Summer then follows Christmas

Summer brings warmth

Autumn tells the Glory of God

and Christmas renews us in Hope

New Years is Jesus giving us pause to 

remember

Jesus Christ makes ALL things New.

As we are asked to remind God

to bless us with more Heaven on earth,

His Good Will be done.

To You, our Father, be the Glory

Our God is an Awesome God! Amen

and Alleluia

in Jesus Christ and His Glory!

Matthew 13:31,32

Jesus put before them another parable: “The Kingdom of Heaven 

is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.

 Although it is the smallest of all seeds, 

yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, 

so that the birds of the air come 

and 

nest in its branches.”

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Psalm 147 ~ The Lord builds

 

Psalm 147

Praise the Lord!

For it is good to sing praises to our God;

for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.

2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem;

he gathers the outcasts of Israel.

3 He heals the brokenhearted

and binds up their wounds.

4 He determines the number of the stars;

he gives to all of them their names.

5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;

his understanding is beyond measure.

6 The Lord lifts up the humble;

he casts the wicked to the ground.

7 Sing to the Lord with thanksgiving;

make melody to our God on the lyre!

8 He covers the heavens with clouds;

he prepares rain for the earth;

he makes grass grow on the hills.

9 He gives to the beasts their food,

and to the young ravens that cry.

 His delight 

is not in the strength of the horse,

nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,

11 but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him,

in those who hope 

in His steadfast love.

Yes, yesterday we spoke of Survival.

How will we worship when we are bone deep annoyed?

We speak with Jesus, with our Father, in the Holy Spirit. How do we expect to be a place He would dwell in when each direction we look in has some strife?  How will the Lord delight in us when we travel and can't find the cap to the bottle, the toothpaste, the laundry detergent. 

When traffic suddenly is unreasonable. When everyone is out of their office when you call.

When the News is always annoying. And family has moved to Denver. And now you can't find the garden tool you worked with for the last thirty minutes? 

For two days, I bit back being annoyed by almost everything but breathing. I discovered how much I wanted to not be annoyed. How joyful life is when Joy is found. And as soon as the dark mood left, then I'd think of something that annoyed me. Much to be grateful for and, easier to be the bone deep rotten comment, which comes first and isn’t always spoken out loud.

Being alone seemed a much better solution than being annoyed. We traveled this weekend, last weekend to Disc Golf in Austin and this weekend to opening up my mother's house to the MLS Sales List in Dallas. Maybe it was having too much to do. But something crawled up my craw.

As we came home in the car, I found that I had to tell Jesus, tell My Father, what is annoying me and I made a list like shooting at apples circling me. I told My Father, I hate being annoyed, but I'm really, really, really, really annoyed and tired of being annoyed.  And You Love us to see Life is Joy. But here is the shot apples list. I told Abba, I wouldn't want to dwell in me. I need Your Love to help my heart stay open and not a Crab apple.  I finally told Jesus, I need help to be warm-hearted and open-hearted and a Delight to You. I really need help. And almost immediately, instead of suffering to serve the Lord with the ungrateful or the ungracious or the unhelpful, the Lord presented me with the abilities and opportunity to gratefully be kind to those I want to be kind with. I had opportunities to give Mercy, to find Goodness, to treasure memories and to give sincere compliments. And received a full bucket of Love Given.

And I was vastly relieved to be back in a cheerful path again. Taking me a full three or more hours to see, it wasn't my abundant joy and cheerfulness giving me back a right soul, Abba had given me some Love to bounce back. And I had to realize, I'd been gifted, not grown and grafted. Gifted. No work on my part, just Blessed.

1 John 5:14-15

And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.

Part of what I had to say to Abba, was to complain about prayers answered and prayers given. Not the kind of prayer we think God would want. 

1 Peter 5:7 

Casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you.

Grateful for the Power of God's Truth. Mary and Martha and the sour attitude. 72 Disciples who complained and walked off. These Gospel events, told to us, without holding back. Not whitewash.  Simon, the Pharisee Host, who wasn't gracious even to the Son of God. Jairus, who wanted a favor.  Jesus tells us what happens in life. John Mark and Mark who wrote, The Gospel, after being criticized. 

Grateful God tells us what to do when Nicodemus is the one who will speak for Jesus, but only if he can come in dark of night.

God of Hope, God of Love, God of Encouragement. 

 Jesus was known to save His Beloved from water, as well.

God tells us this ~

The Word of God is alive and accurate. Warm and caring. Filled with rescue. We can Trust God. Rely upon Him. We see great and unsearchable things in our hands. A great surrounding by such a great witness - The unclouding of Witness. A help, a comforter of God to let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And lets us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. We will believe and God will help our unbelief.

1 Corinthians 13:13 

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 John 4:19 

We love because he first loved us.

Abba, Abba, Abba!

We ask Your Blessing.

We want to overtake our fears. Our doubts. To Defeat harm - disaster. To defeat our unbelief. We believe, Jesus, help us to believe more!!!

With Jesus - His Name - we will overtake the war of doubt.

Ukraine.

All of our days and seasons - with Jesus Christ - we will do this and see this in those we love. We pray this for the people God has given us. 

With Jesus, we endure to the end and we will be saved.

With Jesus, we have eternal life and wear - not only the helmet of salvation - the Crown of Life. We love You, Father God. And Your Word is our promise.

Abba, our prayers - with love for our Beloved - our hearts give us Your Reassurance - our prayer is love and in these words, our talk, will lead us on in deeds and in truth.

Blessed be our Father, His Son Jesus, giving His believers the Holy Spirit dwelling within us. 

Covering His good Creation with our prayers. 

His Spirit gives Life.

Help us to Seek You First

and we will finish well

in Jesus Christ!

Bless families!

In Jesus. Amen.

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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