Isaiah 40 ~ He who brings out the starry Host one by one and calls forth each of them by name.

Comfort, comfort my people,

    says your God.

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,

    and proclaim to her

that her hard service has been completed,

    that her sin has been paid for,

that she has received from the Lord’s hand

    double for all her sins.

3 A voice of one calling:

“In the wilderness prepare

    the way for the Lord;

make straight in the desert

    a highway for our God.

4 Every valley shall be raised up,

    every mountain and hill made low;

the rough ground shall become level,

    the rugged places a plain.

5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed,

    and all people will see it together.

For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

6 A voice says, “Cry out.”

    And I said, “What shall I cry?”

“All people are like grass,

    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

7 The grass withers and the flowers fall,

    because the breath of the Lord blows on them.

    Surely the people are grass.

8 The grass withers and the flowers fall,

    but the word of our God endures forever.”

9 You who bring good news to Zion,

    go up on a high mountain.

You who bring good news to Jerusalem,

    lift up your voice with a shout,

lift it up, do not be afraid;

    say to the towns of Judah,

    “Here is your God!”

 See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power,

    and he rules with a mighty arm.

See, his reward is with him,

    and his recompense accompanies him.

 He tends his flock like a shepherd:

    He gathers the lambs in his arms

and carries them close to his heart;

    he gently leads those that have young.

12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,

    or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens?

Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket,

    or weighed the mountains on the scales

    and the hills in a balance?

13 Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord,

    or instruct the Lord as his counselor?

14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him,

    and who taught him the right way?

Who was it that taught him knowledge,

    or showed him the path of understanding?

15 Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket;

    they are regarded as dust on the scales;

    He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

16 Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires,

    nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.

17 Before Him all the nations are as nothing;

    they are regarded by Him as worthless

    and less than nothing.

18 With whom, then, will you compare God?

    To what image will you liken him?

19 As for an idol, a metalworker casts it,

    and a goldsmith overlays it with gold

    and fashions silver chains for it.

20 A person too poor to present such an offering

    selects wood that will not rot;

they look for a skilled worker

    to set up an idol that will not topple.

Do you not know?

    Have you not heard?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

He sits enthroned 

above 

the circle

 of the earth

   And its people are like grasshoppers.

He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,

    and spreads them out like a tent to live in.

23 He brings princes to naught

    and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.

24 No sooner are they planted,

    no sooner are they sown,

    no sooner do they take root in the ground,

than he blows on them and they wither,

    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

25 “To whom will you compare me?

    Or who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens:

    Who created all these?

He who brings out the starry host 

one by one

    and calls forth each of them 

by name.

Because of his great power and mighty strength,

    not one of them is missing.

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27 Why do you complain, Jacob?

    Why do you say, Israel,

“My way is hidden from the Lord;

    my cause is disregarded by my God”?

28 Do you not know?

    Have you not heard?

The Lord is the everlasting God,

    the Creator of the ends of the earth.

He will not grow tired or weary,

    and his understanding no one can fathom.

He gives strength to the weary

    and increases the power of the weak.

30 Even youths grow tired and weary,

    and young men stumble and fall;

31 but those who hope in the Lord

    will renew their strength.

They will soar 

on wings like eagles;

    they will run and not grow weary,

    they will walk 

and not be faint.

Amen!

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

He sits enthroned 

above 

the circle

 of the earth

Troposphere!

Stratosphere!

 Mesosphere!

Thermosphere! 

And Exosphere!

Do you not know?

    Have you not heard?

Has it not been told you from the beginning?

    Have you not understood since the earth was founded?

He sits enthroned 

above 

the circle

 of the earth

Let the Circle be Unbroken

by and by, Lord

By and By.

There are moments we read history, we rejoice or we weep. 

I was in tears during my freshman history class, sitting in the grand and beautiful Academic Building of Texas A&M University. I learned of Italy singing to one another morning rise and daybreak during the plagues. To remember the beauty of life, to live into the fragility and to endure through heartbreak to the finish and find Glory of Jesus.

After the War of the States, Charleston decided they would find joy in the devastation, vast loss of life, loss and sorrow. How would they live through the struggles? Acts 2, fellowship sharing, borrowing, fellowship and love. If one needed dinner plates, then the neighbors would come to dinner and if glasses were needed another neighbor would come to dinner.  

These days, my plates and my service ware have been invited without any inclusion. We need to rise above being too nice to too rude. On many levels. Find Love and we need to be able to give. Give shoes, clothes, pies, dinner, time to one another. When we are pressed financially, we can clean up and put forth the items others need.  Give to Church donation, Pro Life Donation and Education and Needs Donation.  We can all contribute to make life better for one another.

John 14:19 

Because I Live, You Also Will Live.

We ask Your Path encourage us to find You.

Covered in the Love, Mercy 

and Name of Jesus.

 Amen.

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Genesis 49:29-50:14 ~ beyond the Jordan

 

Genesis 46:1

 So Israel took his journey with all that he had

Jacob's (Israel) Back to Hebron. Watercolor painted by James Tissot.

Jacob has been mummified.

Genesis 49:29-50:14

Genesis 49:29-50:14

Then he commanded them and said to them,

 "I am to be gathered to my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, ³⁰ in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. 

³¹ There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife, and there I buried Leah— ³² the field and the cave that is in it were bought from the Hittites." ³³ When Jacob finished commanding his sons, he drew up his feet into the bed and breathed his last and was gathered to his people.

Genesis 50

¹ Then Joseph fell on his father’s face and wept over him and kissed him. 

² And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel. ³ Forty days were required for it, for that is how many are required for embalming. And the Egyptians wept for him seventy days.

⁴ And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, 

"If now I have found favor in your eyes, please speak in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, ⁵ My father made me swear, saying, 'I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.' Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return." ⁶ And Pharaoh answered, "Go up, and bury your father, as he made you swear."

Jacob, now embalmed for 40 days Egyptian style, surprises the future Nation of Israel arriving in Hebron with the incredible return, to be entombed.

⁷ So Joseph went up to bury his father. With him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt, ⁸ as well as all the household of Joseph, his brothers, and his father’s household. Only their children, their flocks, and their herds were left in the land of Goshen. ⁹ And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. It was a very great company.

¹⁰ When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days. ¹¹ When the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning on the threshing floor of Atad, they said, "This is a grievous mourning by the Egyptians." Therefore the place was named Abel-mizraim [mourning (or meadow) of Egypt]; it is beyond the Jordan.

¹² Thus his sons did for him as he had commanded them, ¹³ for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place. ¹⁴ After he had buried his father, Joseph returned to Egypt with his brothers and all who had gone up with him to bury his father.

A man who wrestled with God, Jacob, wanted a blessing. Jacob should really, really, really, really, Really not have been named Israel. The man wrestled with God. So wrong. Look at Isaac and Rebekah. Prophetic child, prophetic marriage, blessed with twins. No concubines, no slaves told to bear children. Why isn't Israel Isaac instead of Jacob. Seems a reasonable question.

God felt Jacob was more interested in Him and in Blessing his children and grandchildren. Not just keeping the blessing to one son. Jacob felt he could make God's blessing go farther. More Love than the parents, who were uptight and critical.  Sarcasm and unreasonable, lack of love and gracious direction sounds unreasonable isn't a sign of the Holy Spirit. Ignoring children to favor others. Well... we digress into all are flawed.

Sincere fight for faith: Jacob went out as a great man. His funeral astonishing the people, his neighbors in Hebron, he left during famine.

Proverbs 16:7

When a man’s ways please the LORD,

 he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

An odd Scripture verse for Jacob and yet, in the Love, Mercy and Graciousness of God, we could say this of Jacob.

What is the fruit of Jacob's life today? So Very Much.

His tomb is the "second holiest site" for Jews (after the Temple Mount) and Christians and Muslims. All these faiths say by tradition the Cave of the Patriarchs is the burial place of three biblical couples: Abraham and Sarah; Isaac and Rebecca; Jacob and Leah.

Speaking of Genesis and Tombs... 

Let's talk about the Reality of 2022 Halloween Season.  

Today, the News showed photos of what looked like candy and is actually deadly Fentanyl.

Why should we scare the United States 

Population of 332, 403, 650 million people
talking about the overdose of 91,000 people.  Seems unreasonable.

What is frightening is an invasion on even casual opioid use.

Deaths involving synthetic opioid
Fentanyl was involved in 82% of all opioid-involved deaths. 

The movie, "Kingsman: Golden Circle"  has an element of truth in the mixture.

When the Borders open like Genesis 46-49, there will be adjustments, especially when the Law has to catch up from being held back.

Halloween 2022 is a time to talk to the children, teenagers, college students and

those who use opioids by trick and in casual use. It's too easy to squeeze this into the mix. Fentanyl is easy to make and transport. 

This is a good year to examine your area and maybe use Trick or Trunk. 

Explaining most people are honest. But things are floating around until Security is approved again. Eat from people you know. Avoid Drugs.

Vote accordingly.

When the Chinese historically decided to get rid of Opium Addiction. It was a literal war, Opium War, Opium Dens were burned down. It's remarkable, thought provoking, the Fentanyl ingredients have been something the Chinese, today, have been battling. Fentanyl spread to Central America. 

Jacob faced so many off-topic situations in life. 

Theft. Family abuse. Flight and hide from Family. Abuse of employment by Family. Seeing gods worshiped. Multiple marriage. Enslaving slaves to have children. Fear of being killed by cheated brother. Starvation. Child death. Being conned. Leaving the Promised Land.

Jacob is an astonishing person to be held as Biblical Standards. And in this story, Jacob we see was depressed. Lack of Hope. Fearful. Cheated. Pressed. Starved. Poor. And the door was opened to him by God The Almighty. If Jacob can be God's Chosen, so can anyone needing help.  We need to speak to each other and allow the truth to be merciful.

Speaking the Truth is a Blessing. When spoken Mercifully. 

One of the major reasons for sobriety: We have to think past painful events in life and have all our brains to understand the hidden hope and solutions. To tell someone you love them in the honest conditions of life, is a little risky, but worth the potential harm and the potential gain.

Ephesians 4:13-16

13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 

15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, 

makes the body grow so that it 

builds itself up in love.

Friends don't let Friends fall into Fentanyl

If I were to be honest about my fear about our culture, I would be concerned we feel strong to be hateful and judgmental. Judgmental about goodness, about politics. I'm concerned about the loss of goodness and labeling of falseness as goodness. I'm concerned about the systems we trusted breaking down. Concerned, we are people without gift shops. We don't feel we can gift because we might need to pay for healthcare or bills.  I don't see any organization or system that isn't struggling or pretense. 

We have to speak up and speak with compassion.

Do I believe we will recover? Yes, I do. We have to believe God helps us. Believe in the best of each other. Ask each other for better goodness. 

Go where Love is possible.  Expect to be well treated and treat one another well. Speak up, with compassion. Be prepared to make changes to be within the lanes of Love. Signal as you change lanes. 

We used to go to a restaurant where the waiters were just jerks. And it became difficult to even get a glass of water. It became obvious to the owners, this wasn't service. And now this is one of our favorite places to go. 

Abba,Father,

Joy to read the Brothers of Jesus Christ. We find Your Words taught to us, Your Family.

Jude 1:2

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

Joy to read John the Beloved Disciple living into the 2nd Century in endurance and Love.

John 20:21

Again Jesus said,

 "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you."

We ask You to Dwell in us.

And in Your Love and Mercy to be displayed and a True Peace,

we pray to un-learn the art of not being seen.

Hebrews 12:14
Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; 
without holiness no one will see the Lord.

We pray to be the Helper in ending The Great Cold, this Virus Recovery.
To persevere, to encourage, to be merciful, to be Truth.
In Lovely circumstance, in distance circumstance, in times of unequal blessings
a real part of the ups and downs of life, and in great discomfort -
to find real Brotherhood

Timothy 1:2
To Timothy, my dear son: 
Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

James 2
Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in shabby clothes also comes in. 3 If you lavish attention on the man in fine clothes and say, “ Here is a seat of honor, but say to the poor man, “You must stand or “Sit at my feet, have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Hebrews 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: 

for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Pursuit what is Good.
Disregard what is unnecessary. Look to what is Good.

Be Genuine. Love what is Good.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, 

though He was rich, yet for your sakes
He became poor, that ye through His poverty might become rich.

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! 

How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways! 

For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. 

To Him be glory forever.

We will take the strength of God and find:

Father in Your Strength,
we will find More Heaven on earth and
see You first.

We will place those we love confidently in Jesus Christ.


Dwell in us, we ask in the Highest Name of Jesus for Your Help.

Jesus help us in this Nation to be in Your Word and more Joyful.
Covered in God's Love,

All 50 Governors and Legislatures.
The end of divisions.

We pray with all the States for
God's Blessings and for Florida facing Hurricane.

Kentucky in Recovery of Flood.

Wyoming.

Texas, Arizona and New Mexico in drought.

We ask Your Path encourage us to find You.

Covered in the Love, Mercy 

and Name of Jesus.

 Amen.

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Luke 10:21-24 ~ In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit

Imagine the first week after the first Easter, where the Parables of Jesus were explained as His Glory is Revealed. Death cannot hold Jesus the Lord.

David believed God and

walked in the ways and

horrible circumstance

and

Blessings

God Gave him.

Luke 10:21-24

In that same hour He rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, 

“I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 

22 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, or who the Father is except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.” 

23 Then turning to the disciples He said privately,

 “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! 24 For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”

Remember with me, Jesus did not explain the parables to the crowd. Jesus explained His Parables to His Disciples. Multitudes and multitudes came to the Temple - Josephus said this would be 1.2 million people based upon the average Holy Day Attendance in the Temple in Jerusalem.

Imagine, after the Easter of Jesus' Triumph -  the crowds learning there was far more to Jesus than free bread and fish.

Isaiah 30:18

Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!

The multitudes were learning this as the Generation of Jesus.

Isaiah 65:23

They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.

Matthew 16:16,17

Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus replied, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven."

Christianity isn't a religion; it is a relationship. 

Christianity is not a philosophy; its approach to life is concrete. Something to hold on, not forsake all day, every day. Jesus tells us to Love. To be wise. To live in His Commandments. Honor God first with your thoughts, works and actions. 

When Jesus was born, the angels didn't send out a Coca-Cola commercial guaranteed to make us feel good. It wasn't like a Christmas card saying," Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men."

No, what the angels said, as messengers of God Almighty, was:

Luke 2:14

Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among men 

in whom He is well pleased.

How did Abraham please God?

Romans 4:2-4 (New American Standard Bible)

For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? "ABRAHAM BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS CREDITED TO HIM AS RIGHTEOUSNESS."

Romans 10:9 

That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Faith made Abraham the pick of God. Belief. 

Abraham got on his feet and he went. He expected God to be good and he argued with God for other people to be allowed to live. He argued with God to bless his illegitimate son. Abraham was one who believed God was so large He could bless everyone - rather like Jacob! Jacob to take his blessing and then return the blessing to all his sons and a few of his grandsons.

“Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you that many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”

Consider the shepherds,
called forth by God, they heard the message and what did they do? Why are these characters in the field chosen?

Luke 2

14 “Glory to God in the highest,

and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

15 When the angels went away from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” 16 And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying in a manger. 17 And when they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told them concerning this child."

We who grew up with the Bible knew of God's abundant love for a shepherd boy overlooked by his own father. A boy who defended sheep. And thought so much of an anointing of God that a child stepped up to kill a warrior giant. Who fled a jealous king to become a mercenary.  Still trying to find the Holy path as he lived in a ditch.

Acts 13:22

And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.

Abba,Father,

You have given us Jesus. Jesus is Love. Dwell in me.

Help us find You first. Seek You first.

And finish well in Jesus Christ.

Father God, Thank You for Your Steadfast Love. Bless the People who Love.
In Jesus. Amen.

This Pandemic and Recovery has the whole world wondering if we have all the news. 

If the Rainbow Promise of Noah remains. And we all have an idea Your Word is Good yesterday, today and tomorrow.

We'd like the Light of the world in mankind to touch Your Heart and have this Recovery time and this illness to be gone. Healed. 

We would like Your Word to be Spoken, "He Healed Them All."

You have given us wonderful and sincere prayer of Jesus saying more Heaven on this earth. We would love to see more of Your Kingdom, Your Power and Your Glory. We would like to pray this with "Give us this day."

And we'd love to pray so effectively, we wouldn't look back and say, "If only we had understood more of Your Plan to enfold in our Prayer." 

You know Your Hope and Future for us better than we do.

We would cover what lacks in this prayer, with Your Favorite Word: Jesus.

Jesus, Wonderful Counselor, Almighty God pray for us now and always. Amen.

The Dove was sent forth

believing God 

would fulfill His Word.

His Goodness.

God's Faithfulness.

Abba, Daddy. 

 

God reminds us

Blessing us with prayers for more Heaven on earth,

His Good Will be done.

His Word upholds the Universe.

To You, our Father, be the Glory

Our God is an Awesome God! Amen

and Alleluia

in Jesus Christ and His Glory!

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