James 1:12 ~ The Crown of Life †

James 1:12

Blessed is the one who remains steadfast under trial, 

for when one has stood the test 

one will receive the crown of life, 

which God has promised to those who love Him.

Galatians 6:9 

And let us not grow weary of doing good, 

for in due season we will reap, 

if we do not give up.

Romans 5:3-5 

More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 

and endurance produces character, 

and character produces hope, 

and hope does not put us to shame, 

because God's love 

has been poured into our hearts 

through the Holy Spirit 

who has been given to us.

Queen Elizabeth, 1926 - September 8, 2022

With all the generous remarks and heartfelt condolences for The United Kingdom's longest reigning monarch, we should probably find out the conflicts and hardships facing this inspiring life.

Face and Fight the Good Fight.

During Prince Charles' Prince of Wales era, he said of his mother's reign, she was placed to reign over the end of the British Empire. Finito.  The party is over, turn out the lights. Who is the Queen of the Danish Empire. Well, that was 1645 and we'd have to look this up.

Instead, Queen Elizabeth has fought the Good Fight.

A newlywed not expecting to reign, 1952.

At the British Empire's peak in 1921, the British ruled a quarter of the land on Earth. When Elizabeth was crowned in 1952, the British Empire was mighty, with more than 70 overseas territories. Even then, however, it was clear that the situation could not last. India...Ghandi and the rest is well-known history. 

Ghandi was incorrect about not liking Christians. A war is made with one side. Britain withdrew. 

  

Glum? By the time, the Queen and Prince Philip were having their silver wedding anniversary...

1979, the British Empire was reduced to a few, small pockets dotting the world. 

The shrinking didn't stop, and Hong Kong transferred to China in 1997. 

2015, Britain was 14 overseas territories left. Britain's land in the Antarctic, vast but mostly unpopulated. Then the largest remaining British overseas territory is the Falkland Islands. At 4,700 square miles, the islands are a little smaller than Connecticut.

How did Queen Elizabeth celebrate in 1979?

Understanding the changes facing the world. Queen Elizabeth knew tradition. And instead of succumbing to the maze of changes surrounding every aspect of daily life, she remained who she was and set about looking for an ever-increasing path, finding life meaningful.  The throne was steeped in the privileges of all aspects of self glory. 

Queen Elizabeth assigned herself the task of Duty. By 1963, 82% of all private households had a television, 72% a vacuum cleaner, 45% a washing machine, and 30% a refrigerator. Ownership of such things had spread down the social scale and the gap between professional and manual workers had considerably narrowed. And the Crown was well aware of Tradition. 

Queen Elizabeth turned the focus of the Royal Family away from insular activities and began to promote charitable, philanthropic measures as the nation. The Queen and Prince Philip began to promote family to help aid all the transitions of a new and changing world.  Modern world. Modern family. The family set out in Family matters. Far from being role models, the Windsors have of common family maladies — divorce, adultery, betrayal, hypocrisy. Welcome to the real world.

Giving Modern world real Continuity. 

The endless round of duties have been fascinating. Queen Elizabeth met more world leaders than anybody else alive. In vastly different cultures.  More remote Nations. Huge Nations.  More than any Pope. 

The Queen devoted her life to performing duties — and not just the grand duties of inaugurating parliament and going on royal tours and the small ones of opening hospitals and attending charity functions. She lived her entire life in public — even  on vacation, she could never let her guard down — and traveled tirelessly  to keep alive the idea of the Commonwealth, one of her greatest passions.

Queen Elizabeth was leading the role in the transformation of the British Empire into a commonwealth of self-governing nations. Prime Ministers come and go. Her years shaped a new world.

How did Queen Elizabeth do? The Lord Knows.

The Commonwealth is now 54 Nations. Amazing when the population of the UK is 68 million people.  And the Queen held Continuity in Faith. Survival under all the weight of ongoing criticism. Told she was a failure to her Empire. Mocked as irrelevant.

And then. Find Queen Elizabeth's Congregation is her Anglican Church. 

The Anglican Church Represents 85 Million people in more than 165 Countries.

Queen Elizabeth gave Comfort in the middle of the Pandemic. 

"We will all meet again."

On her faith:

"Each day is a new beginning, I know that the only way to live my life is to try to do what is right, to take the long view, to give of my best in all that the day brings, and to put my trust in God.” 

(Exactly right. Her attention to duty and family. Not all the Monarchs of the UK have done this. Her family continues to hold up marriage, even in regular strains of life and divorce. When Prince William followed the family example of marrying Kate, marriages rose in the UK for several years. 2011, the wedding year, marriages rose 30%.)

“I know just how much I rely on my own faith to guide me through the good times and the bad.”

• "If we resolve to be considerate and to help our neighbors; to make friends with people of different races and religions; and, as our Lord said, to look to our own faults before we criticize others, we will be keeping faith with those who landed in Normandy and fought so doggedly for their belief in freedom, peace and human decency."

"I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart, I shall strive to be worthy of your trust."

"We know the reward is peace on earth, goodwill toward men, but we cannot win it without determination and concerted effort."

"We should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure, better days will return: We will be with our friends again; we will be with our families again; we will meet again."

"Everyone is our neighbor; no matter what race, creed, or color."

"When peace comes, remember it will be for us, the children of today, to make the world of tomorrow a better and happier place."

"Religion and culture are much in the news these days, usually as sources of difference and conflict, rather than for bringing people together. But the irony is that every religion has something to say about tolerance and respecting others."

We started this Post from the Book of James, Jesus' Brother. Let's close with Jesus' Brother.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; 

its flower falls, 

and its beauty perishes. 

So also will the rich fade away 

in the midst of one's pursuits.

The Word of God is Living and Active. Let's look at this wonderful woman, Elizabeth.  The time of Elizabeth's passing to Heaven, Climate change is the topic.

Reportedly, Queen Elizabeth sustained a fall while at Balmoral Palace, Scotland.  She will be missed by the world at large for her grace upon grace.

Pursing the duties she loved, Elizabeth II, Monarch, meets her 15th Prime Minister. This rich, rich life of an extraordinary example of Meaningful Life. Death is not unexpected when one is 96 years old. This was an extraordinary passing. Queen Elizabeth was in the midst of her pursuits. Rich in so many extraordinary ways. Such as hosting survivors of the Holocaust. And not ending the gathering until she had heard and spent time with each person.

"I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart, I shall strive to be worthy of your trust."

In the Midst of Life. 

Abba, Father,

How do we pray with such joy and expectation?

Jesus told us to Pray and always have Hope.

Father, dwell in us, please help us to found Joyful to You.

Help us to seek You first.

Bless those I love and the People You've given me

to have You dwell in us all and Help us all Seek You First.

Strong in Jesus Christ.

Father, it is in the heart, mind and soul of all of our prayers

 Your Kingdom is seen more and more on this earth.

We pray Thank You and Gratitude for the birds who were ill in 11 of the United States

to end the illness of Covid and join in this like the bird recovery.

We pray more and more healing in

Your Good Creation

from Pandemic Recovery.

Jesus has said to me and to you, "Pray for more of God's Good Kingdom

to be done on earth as in Heaven."

What astonishing Good Fortune!

How Blessed we are to Serve the God of Love.

Love God, Love His Creation, Ask for This Marvelous Help!

Pray with Hope, Expect You to be Pleased and Thrilled

and filled with Love at this Prayer.

And in the Power and Glory of the Highest Name of Jesus,

we will begin to look and see more of God's Heaven on this earth.

May God Bless Elizabeth

and all

her extended family.

Bless us all to Finish Well.

The Bible is being Incredibly Read These Years

Have All Hope.

Lift again tired dog path knees and straighten again

Our resilience.

Our endurance.

Our Belief, we will Go Forth.

Therefore lift 

your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 

  and make straight paths for your feet, 

so that what is lame may not be put out of joint 

but 

rather 

be healed! 

14 Strive for peace with everyone, 

and for the holiness 

without which no one will see the Lord. 

God Blesses 

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

and let

her tireless pursuit

make us stronger

in the Lord.

Amen in 

The Highest Name of Jesus Christ.

Let the Love God is Strengthen us to Joy.

Our Path to be in His Plan.

In the Wonderful and the 

Highest Name of Jesus Christ.

Amen in His Joy. Amen.

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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Nahum 2:9 ~ trouble will not rise up a second time.

 

The Lectionary is important.

We learn and are challenged to read the odd bits of Scripture. And it offends people and sends them swirling. Why? Jesus said man is like a flower in the field. We simply cannot uphold the Nature of God as God does. Jesus Christ does. 

Jesus Christ wants to save the whole world in Jesus Christ.  Jesus does not say don't read the odd bits of Scripture. Jesus, The Son of God, says every dot and iota of Scripture is something to examine. To read the Plan of God.

Jesus isn't meek and mild.

Nahum 2:9

9 What do you plot against the Lord?

He will make a complete end;

trouble will not rise up a second time.

  

  

Luke 6  

22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.  

Pandemic Recovery is a great time to think about the Prodigal Son. The Father did not stand at the door to curse, exclude, revile, slander, and plot to get at the Prodigal Son. If He did, He would lose his family. For decades. Around 2% a year, until Pandemic thinned more.

What can we count on in Pandemic Recovery can be seen, measured, viewed, learned and avoided. The 13th Century Avignon Papacy from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon rather than in Rome. And during the Plagues end, much like World War II, the Jews were targeted as the fiend. For money. And then when the Pope stood up for the Jews as not the cause. The neighboring countries created war for money. Using Power to get money.

The end of the Black Plague, we all know, created starvation. Those unwilling and ill to do the work. Weakening the nations, creating more illness. More despair, illness and deepening loss of health and systems.

The Jews had a plague of wars, we call the biblical version The Apocrypha.  

Jesus called one portion of this, "The Fox." And the people did like the time of Hezekiah and gave funds, gifts and tithes. Into a rigid system of Laws and works. And soon Herod was building the Royal Stoa. The bank for the Temple. The Money counters, moneylenders, the dole of paying for animal sacrifice for indulgences, the rich and wealthy building in honor of Caesar's architecture. And with the chicken house so nice and feathered, Herod wanted his own glory. Jesus called Herod a fox. The fox leading the Roman armies to the Royal Stoa, the feathered nest.

The French Revolution was a plague of greed and blood.

The safety of those with funds began to play with hunger, wages, employment, to increase money. And soon more heads fell, the Church saw book burnings and destruction internally. The wealth of the Churches was the enemy of the people. Those nobles who had felt wealthy, safe enough to light the Revolution found the tide turned upon those who thought safety was something to purchase.

What is Pandemic Recovery but the loss of faithful systems surrounding us to see how we will heal or react or recovery or starve.

What happened after plagues? People lived in walled cities. And were afraid. Until less happened and less happened and boredom set in and hopelessness. It wasn't until the Grace of God showed up and gave the people courage to dwell in safety.

Ephesians 4:15 

Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ.

John 14:19

Because I Live, You Also Will Live.  

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.

2 Corinthians 4:2

We reject all shameful deeds and underhanded methods. We don’t try to trick anyone or distort the word of God.

We tell the truth before God, and all who are honest know this.

2 Corinthians 2:17 

We do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, as those sent from God.

1 Corinthians 5:8

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.

2 Corinthians 1:12

And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God--not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.

We can talk about beautiful things and beautiful Scripture. We can utter warnings about things, events, systems, we cannot pretend to be God and control.  But Jesus has said He is in every battle in the Old Testament.  Jesus tells us God explains the evil and the good. Making a safe place for love to dwell and prosper.

The Great Christian Awakening of the UK existed only because all mankind realized they were flawed and unable to be anything but flawed. And asked mercy for those struggling. Mercy for those bearing burdens that were invisible.   Not downgrading culture.  Finding His Mercies Renew Each Day. Balance of Speaking the Truth in Love. And Love for one another. Not envy and wrangling.

Awakenings due to looking at every dot and iota. Speaking the Truth with Love. The Great Commandment, Love one Another. 

Jesus spoke of the importance of Light. 

Billy Graham's Crusades grew and grew when one candle can be held up in a darkened, huge football field. One Light can light millenniums. One Light from you as a Child of God.

Such a small thing, creating huge impact. 

Jesus spoke of seeds. 

Too small to matter? Words. Kindness. Acts of Kindness. Prayers.

Jesus said our faith impacts lives. Our deeds impact our lives. Our history. Our future. Your life and Your future. The chain of Life.'''

Matthew 13

13 That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. 2 And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. 

3 And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. 

4 And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, 6 but when the sun rose they were scorched. And since they had no root, they withered away. 7 Other seeds fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them. 8 Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 

9 He who has ears, let him hear.”

Do not despair and lose sight of His Mercies Daily.

Does Prayer actually work? Recently, the anti-prayer sentiments hit the Headline. Don't you Really Believe Prayer Works Now? 

Seeds we plant. Jesus tells us His Father is working. 

Abba, Father God,

By You all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible,

Jesus brings many sons to glory. 

For Jesus is come to our Father's glory with His angels, 

and He will reward each person according to what he has done.

Today:

We are remembering Good Prayer 

Blessed to God. 

Please pray all heals well and my eyesight improves, thank you!

Jesus has been hearing us pray in Amazing and Wondrous Ways.

 We ask Jesus today for those suffering,

who need His Help. His Love and Mercy.

Lord Jesus please heal, love, forgive, and heal them all

 in Your Love and Mercy. Amen.

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among

 those with whom He is pleased!”

Father God, help us to do the Good Works You have prepared us to walk in. 

For the ones we Love and the People You have given us. 

For our Churches, places of work, our states and Nation. 

The People who are Your Beloved, to ALL

cover them with Your Name in strength and mercy. 

We live abundantly on the Word of God, You have provided.

We Pray for the Republic.

We the People all have Family and Loved Ones 

we have fought and lived and died

for our Freedoms.

One Nation Under God

with

Liberty and Justice for All.

We pray for Truth.

Knowing in the Truth is where Peace and Integrity 

with Love and Courtesy Dwell.

Jesus, please dwell in us.

Jesus, please dwell in those we Love.

We ask to seek You first.

In Jesus, we will finish well.

Favor our Nation, dwell in us. Please.

We ask to know to seek You first in all aspects of Life.

Knowing we will see and be more of Heaven on earth.

 Proverbs 16:9 

The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, 

plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 40:31 

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; 

they shall walk and not faint.

Abba, Father God,

You have told us to always pray with Hope.

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and see more Joy.

Covered in God's Love,

The end of Trouble.

Help this Virus end quickly, safely

We rest in the Hands of Our Good Father.

In Jesus Christ. Amen.

God Himself Bless, Sustain, Comfort, Guide

Jesus Christ Live in us.

Help us to seek You first.

Amen!

More Heaven upon earth.

Grow the Kingdom

with

Love.

♔ LORD JESUS SAVES †

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