Psalms 36:7 ~ How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!

 

Psalm 119:105-112     

The Message

By your words I can see where I’m going;

they throw a beam of light on my dark path.

I’ve committed myself 

and 

I’ll never turn back

from living by your righteous order.

Everything’s falling apart on me, God;

put me together again with your Word.

Festoon me with your finest sayings, God;

teach me your holy rules.

My life is as close as my own hands,

but I don’t forget what You have revealed.

The wicked do their best to throw me off track,

but I don’t swerve an inch from your course.

I inherited your book on living; it’s mine forever—

what a gift! And how happy it makes me!

I concentrate on doing exactly what you say—

I always have and always will.

Psalm 63

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you;

my soul thirsts for you;

my flesh faints for you,

as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary,

beholding Your power and glory.

3 Because your steadfast love is better than life,

my lips will praise you.

4 So I will bless you as long as I live;

in your name I will lift up my hands.

Before we arrive in our Father's Heavenly Kingdom,

we have decisions to make

I rarely doubt and, yet, I have to say I worry.
Worry is fear. Fear and doubt go hand in hand.
That's threading cross-hairs.
I don't doubt the promises of God,
I wonder how they apply. 

I wonder about circumstances.


God, I firmly believe, is Vast as the Universe and is Love. 

I believe the Universe is the size of the Lord God Almighty and He gently holds us.

I wonder about the learning the path. 

God sends us out to learn what kind of people we will become. Like His very own Prodigal Son.

When we return to the Lord, 

How we present to Him what we did with our talents. Like the prodigal son and Father. I believe God puts us in this life like we send our children to college. Father God anticipating running to us, when we arrive, finished with this life, to the open gates of Heaven.

Radical Love

Fear - this word appears in the Old Testament 437 times and in the New Testament 96 times. 

Courage appears 38 times. This is extremely radical. And teaches us, God runs to us. Our Father does not tell us to buck up and leave. In real circumstance, God Himself, The Almighty, our very own Father - does not Leave, nor forsake us.

Jesus arrived to help us understand God the Father is in all circumstances of life. All Things. All things are in His Hands. Nothing exists He has not seen before. We do not out maneuver God. 

Our Father doesn't say, COURAGE. And move on, instead He tells us He knows about the world and will help us daily. In real life.

We have to walk the path Home to the Lord.

Eye-yi- I 
Like the song I yi yi yi
Doubts usually are about the word "I".

I've been well off. And I've been poor. I've been befriended. I've been forsaken. I've been hurt. I've been apologized to. I've suffered the death of my dad twice. I've suffered the death of a baby. I've had a miscarriage. I've seen family suffer horribly with addiction. I've suffered seeing my family rail at God. I've seen weird comedians devalue all I love about God in insidious ways. I've been made fun of for things people think about God. I've had confidences betrayed. I've seen a family not really recover from my parent's divorce. I've see polite. I've seen really rude. I've seen avoidance, I've seen users. I've seen my friends suffer. I've seen friends recover when I haven't. I'm in the fifties of life.

I really don't like it when people refuse to do their very best 

and, then, are mad at God for His humor.

I've seen hurt with doubters who spread their poison and then blithely leave their worldly wisdom parked at my door and depart from the loved one they polluted. They left...why are we believing their values still. But before you think I'm really, really sour. I'm only sometimes sour.

I'm not happy with people who have all the answers and no love.

I'm annoyed with the current devaluation of Christianity as wicked.
When the knowledge is so sparse.
Where is the Seek? 

Lava Lamps

We are the generation that believed once Halloween candy is usually scary. And now, with the Borders Open, we will have legitimate reasons to think upon our environment and decide if the children will Trick or Treat.

Things can be tricky. 

I was the child who cut off the white tops of Corn Candy. And told my mother she should call the Tooth Fairy. She asked if I meant on the phone. I said, SsssURE.  That night, the Tooth Fairy discovered I had 48 very small,  teeth under my pillow. Exactly the same size, each tooth. My mother let me discover the teeth were gone and no gift or money was left. 

As I reported the Tooth Fairy jipped me, my mother said the Tooth Fairy never liked to be fooled. I said, you could call her and explain I left her edible teeth. Lots of them. What? Yep, edible teeth. My mother said maybe the Tooth Fairy would re-negotiate. Within a week, I had a quarter under my pillow.

The quarter was definitely better than Fentanyl.  The choices we have to make, today. And how we are honest with our children, yet protect them.

Psalms 36:7

How priceless is your unfailing love, 

O God! 

People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Matthew 10:16

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. 

Therefore be as shrewd as snakes 

and 

as innocent as doves.

John 14:19

Because I live, you also will live.

Heavenly Harvest!

 Stand 

2nd Baptist, Houston, Dr. Ed Young's Church is taking a Stand.

90,000 members

Divided all the Houston area, all Churches into a grid

and for a year

we all fed Katrina Refugees in this grid plan.

This is: Stand | Dr. Ben Young | Woodway Campus

Psalm 73

Truly God is good to Israel,

 to those who are pure in heart.

Abba, Father,

We Bless You for Jesus.

 He enables us to have a Hope and Future. 

Covering us in His Righteousness. 

When we believe Jesus, 

He gives us this immeasurable Gift.

Father, we will Trust in the Lord with all our heart, and do not lean on our own understanding. 

In all our ways acknowledge God, 

and He will make straight your paths.

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, Jesus, Himself, likewise partook of the same things, that through death Jesus might destroy the one who has the power of death, 

that is, the devil.

Knowing we were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from our forefathers, 

not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 

but with the precious blood of Christ,

 like that of a Lamb 

without blemish or spot.

We give You thanks for the Lavish Love of Jesus, especially on the Sabbath. 

Realizing the Magnitude of Jesus. 

And giving thanks knowing our sincerity 

in Thanking Him, 

is our Joy and is pleasing to Him. 

God who bends so far, we will Live forever 

with God in His Kingdom.

Abba, Thank You. 

And for the ones I love, the People You have given me and we pray for. 

Thank You for helping me with my ears. 

For Helping Edward. For P and for D. For their complete recoveries. Thank God, Truly, my experience in life testifies when you rejoice with the chances of others and ask with joy the storehouses of God do not grow small - Abba loves and provides.

So thrilled to see 150 amazing Relics

at St. Anthony of Padua.

This was a marvelous and Living path of Jesus.

His Holy Spirit moving.

Thrilled to see

how diligent 1,000 people could be

in quiet

and in joy 

and faith.
Love in Jesus Christ.

A work of Jesus Himself,

This exhibit faithfully travels the world

from the Vatican

explained perfectly

is one of the most marvelous

exhibits I've seen in my life.

So Grateful, Jesus, to participate.

Thank You, Jesus Christ.

Thank You, Father.

Blessings of the Holy Spirit.

This day, I'm grateful

I held relics of Padre Pio,

In my heart and hand, St. Rita, my favorite.

Popes and so many Teachers.

So many Saints from 400 AD

and 1902.

St. Anthony of Padua.

Greatful for the Heart

and Memory of 

The Holy Catholic Church

we all pray for and with.

In Jesus Christ!

Saint Rita b 1381, always wanted to be

part of the nuns. To be in a nunnery.

As a widow, she still couldn't afford to pledge

a sum, as an older widow.

The Lord Provided in His Paths.

He provided all.

And this exhibit was free

as a Work of the Holy Spirit.

How Priceless is Your Unfailing Love, O God

The dead stick harshly given to the novice nun to water, is today St. Rita's 600 year old grapes covering the nunnery and sending wine to the Vatican for 500 + years. A miracle of Jesus and His Abba. This is really quite rare.

How many 600-year-old roses

have we heard of O Lord?

St. Rita's Roses are alive.

Blessed Be Jesus Christ.

Father, Your Word is Life.

God dwell in us, please, Father.

Dwell in those I love and the people You have given me.

Help us to seek You first.

And in Jesus Christ, we will finish well!

(And on just a small, home note,

I love Opossums. We have one again today, years later.

They live 2.5 years, love peanut butter sandwiches

when they can't find mice and large bugs to eat.

Love Opossums with me, please!)

Thank You, Jesus, for Your Creation

and All Your Creatures!

Thank God for His Goodness, covering us with the Grace we need. Amen.

John 10:28

I give them eternal life, 

and they shall never perish; 

no one will snatch them out of my hand.

My hands were so blessed today,

and filled with Your Heart and Love.

Thank You, Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus we will do this

Isaiah 25:1-9 ~ The LORD of Hosts will make for all †

 

Isaiah 25:1-9

1 O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.

2 For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the foreigners' palace is a city no more; it will never be rebuilt.

3 Therefore strong peoples will glorify you; cities of ruthless nations will fear you.

4 For you have been a stronghold to the poor, a stronghold to the needy in his distress, a shelter from the storm and a shade from the heat; for the breath of the ruthless is like a storm against a wall, 5 like heat in a dry place. You subdue the noise of the foreigners; as heat by the shade of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is put down.

6 On this mountain the LORD of Hosts will make for all peoples

 a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

7 And He will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations.

8 He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the LORD has spoken.

9 It will be said on that day, "Behold, this is our God; we have waited for Him, that He might save us. This is the LORD; we have waited for Him; let us be glad and rejoice in His salvation." 

Psalm 71

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;

    let me never be put to shame!

2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;

    incline your ear to me, and save me!

3 Be to me a rock of refuge,

    to which I may continually come;

you have given the command to save me,

    for you are my rock and my fortress.

4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,

    from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.

5 For you, O Lord, are my hope,

    my trust, O Lord, from my youth.

6 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;

    you are he who took me from my mother's womb.

My praise is continually of you.

7 I have been as a portent to many,

    but you are my strong refuge.

8 My mouth is filled with your praise,

    and with your glory all the day.

9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age;

    forsake me not when my strength is spent.

10 For my enemies speak concerning me;

    those who watch for my life consult together

11 and say, “God has forsaken him;

    pursue and seize him,

    for there is none to deliver him.”

12 O God, be not far from me;

    O my God, make haste to help me!

13 May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;

    with scorn and disgrace may they be covered

    who seek my hurt.

14 But I will hope continually

    and will praise you yet more and more.

15 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,

    of your deeds of salvation all the day,

    for their number is past my knowledge.

16 With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;

    I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,

    and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

18 So even to old age and gray hairs,

    O God, do not forsake me,

until I proclaim your might to another generation,

    your power to all those to come.

19 Your righteousness, O God,

    reaches the high heavens.

You who have done great things,

    O God, who is like you?

20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities

    will revive me again;

from the depths of the earth

    you will bring me up again.

21 You will increase my greatness

    and comfort me again.

22 I will also praise you with the harp

    for your faithfulness, O my God;

I will sing praises to you with the lyre,

    O Holy One of Israel.

23 My lips will shout for joy,

    when I sing praises to you;

    my soul also, which you have redeemed.

24 And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,

for they have been put to shame and disappointed

    who sought to do me hurt.

One of the reasons people didn't learn so much about Disciples, they didn't finish well

 - is the general perception. I had one of my family said this is the block in his faith. We don't discuss the Disciples finishing well. Lazarus finished well and his sisters Mary Magdalene and Martha. The Church histories in France of Lazarus and his sisters record their death in old age and their burial places with certainty. The Lord leaves a path of footprints filled with goodness and mercy all the days of their lives.

We wonder if people can live in redemption. 

Mary Magdalene surely and with great certainty did. The lives of the saints who surrounded Jesus isn't filled with stuffy and antiquity. These are vibrant people facing something larger than life, to encounter the Messiah and have seen His Wonders and Miracles. We want to see Jesus in their lives. And we do.

Mary Magdalene is the Poster Child of Redemption.

Many who followed Jesus did so because they had their own driven agenda

Yep. Simon the Zealot wasn't zealous for Good Friday. "Multitudes" of women showed up to stand with Jesus on Good Friday. And again, after Easter, still is the Good News in the 36 acres of the Temple.

Bartimaeus turned back to follow Jesus and, forever, the formerly blind man is known to have such heart, we see him. Today. Mary knew Judas and Simon the Zealot and many followed Jesus for the miracles and the bread.   Many followed Jesus to see if He would save Israel as physical Savior. And when Jesus failed to produce the miracle of political salvation, they were so very finished with Jesus in diabolical ways. Devious. With a kiss of death instead of love.

Mary Magdalene simply supported Jesus. 

She knew Love and Joy flowed from Jesus in His footsteps, goodness and mercy were His footprints. And followed Jesus.  Healing in all capacities. Except, perhaps, envy of Jesus. This would arrive later.  Mary simply provided Jesus as she could. A dinner, after a frank conversation, when Lazarus Lived. In her ability, she provided for Jesus, the Gospels tell us. And Jesus, in His Daily Choices, chose to visit Mary Magdalene first upon His Very First Return to Life.

Jesus brought a new Heaven and a new earth,

Jesus told the woman at the Samaritan well He is the Lord Messiah.

Jesus Christ, Son of God, chose Mary Magdalene first to visit.

Jesus accepted Mary Magdalene as a woman. A Child of God.

Consider Mary Magdalene, exactly compare to the widow with the coin.

 She gave within her means and with cheerfulness. She went and walked with Jesus. Mary appreciated His life and His Love and Joy. Mary Magdalene did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied herself from gain and her agenda by the form of Loving kindness, goodness and mercy. Walking humbly, obedient to the point of death even unto Good Friday.

1 Samuel 16:7

For the Lord sees not as man sees: 

man looks on the outward appearance,

but the Lord looks on the heart.

Mark 16:9

Now when Jesus 

was risen early 

the first day of the week, 

He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, 

out of whom He had cast seven devils.

Psalms 5:7

But I, by your great love, can come into your house; 

in reverence I bow down toward your holy temple.

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.

Ezra 7:28

Because the hand of the LORD my God was on me, 

I took courage and gathered leaders from Israel to go up with me. 

Psalms 6:4

Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me 

because 

of Your unfailing love. 

   

Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves (in many aspects), 

our God has not forsaken us 

in our bondage. 

He has shown us kindness in the sight of the kings of Persia: 

He has granted us new life 

to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, 

and He has given us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem. 

Psalms 36:7

How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!

 People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

Abba, Father,

We pray this prayer for those we love,

we pray for ourselves,

we pray for this Nation,

and Your Good Creation.

The LORD of Hosts will make for all

Let my name be engraved upon Your hand. 

You are the Rock I stand upon forever. 

For I know that My Redeemer Lives! 

I place my life, my cares, my hope, the ones I Love into Your Hand. 

In Jesus. Amen.

Jesus creates a New Heaven and new earth

For All

and

Jesus the Lord apparently has a tender heart

for the women

in His Life

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus