Psalm 87 ~ All my springs are in You †

 

Psalm 87

A Psalm of the Sons of Korah. A Song.

On the holy mount stands the city He founded;
 the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

3 Glorious things of you are spoken,
O city of God. Selah

4 Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon;
behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush—
“This one was born there,” they say.
5 And of Zion it shall be said,
“This one and that one were born in her”;
for the Most High himself will establish her.
6 The Lord records as he registers the peoples,
“This one was born there.” Selah

7 Singers and dancers alike say,
“All my springs are in you.”

Imagine

Young Jesus, boldly staying behind for days to travel the old Jerusalem and the Temple.

Young Jesus having Joy to be with the Temple Teachers discussing His Father.

We could compare this go going boldly off to college or the first time away from home,

earning our own way. Yes! Jesus Loves Jerusalem! He would hold Jerusalem under

His Pinions.

When we feel God has control of the situation, but we would like control - very certainly in times of crisis - we feel life is rolling over us.

The long prayer for Baptism is sanctification of the water.

Over the Water, the Holy Spirit

Through the Water, the Children of Israel walked with dry feet, through the Red Sea

In the Water, Jesus accepted Baptism as a call of Righteousness before His Father

I've added on to this prayer for years. Gathering Scripture. And in saying the Prayer, I feel righted again with Father God. His Plan is a Hope and Future. And in being God our Father, He does not roll over us. God listens and answers with Love and Mercy. I can say this surviving my daughter being born and awake in Jesus at 36 weeks.

Abba, Father,

Thank You for Your Blessings, we rely, always, on Your Willing Blessings.

God Spoke, "Let there be Light."

Our Wonderful Jesus was created, God of God, Light of Light.

The Father adored the Son.

The Son adored the Father.

The Son delighted in the Father.

The Son delighted in the Father's Master Workmanship.

(God our Father has allowed Jesus full access to His Blessings and Abilities.)

The Holy Spirit hovered over the waters. 

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit made plans for the New Covenant.

The Father, Son and Holy Spirit looked into mankind and were delighted.

Our Father looked at His Creation and said,

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

"It is Good."

And Father God assured us about His goodness saying, 

"It is not good for man to be alone."

The Children of Israel walked with dry feet through the Red Sea. 

We thank You for the People of Scripture - so real.

And this is where you add your people you pray for.

Jesus knew He would be born to a Virgin. 

1 John 5:6 

He is the one who came by water and blood,

not by water only, but by water and by blood.

And the Spirit is the who testifies,

because the Spirit is Truth.

He loved Mary, Joseph, James, Jude, Joses, Simon and His Sisters. In believing in their goodness, He gave them Acts 1 and Acts 2.

We pray for our Family. The Love of Jesus living and dwelling in us.

Jesus was baptized for the sake of Righteousness. 

He was baptized by John the Baptist and Father God spoke, 

"This is my Beloved Son, listen to Him."

And this is where you Bless God for the People who Bless you.

Above the Water.

Jesus began His ministry and went to the Pool of Bethesda. 

A man had been at the Pool for 38 years. 

And Jesus told him, "Your sins are forgiven, pick up your pallet and walk." 

We want to remember to be Grateful, warm and gracious. 

Not like the behavior of this man, turning Jesus in.

Jesus diligently and with Joy pressed forward. 

Jesus in and of the water.

Going to Bethsaida, hometown of Peter, Andrew and Philip. 

Jesus would not fail to mention Philip. 

They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. Jesus took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man’s eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, 

“Do you see anything?”

He looked up and said, “I see people; they look like trees walking around.” 

This man evidently worried a lot.

Like we all do.

Once more, Jesus put his hands on the man’s eyes. 

Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. Our Jesus never forsakes us. 

Our God wants us to see with our eyes and see clearly.

Jesus sent him home, saying, “Don’t even go into the village.” 

Displaying Jesus is the Exact Nature of His Father,

 who has endowed and bestowed a great purposeful humor. 

We pray to be delivered from trouble. 

And be blessed with humor.

Jesus Living Water

Jesus was asked to heal a man who was blind,

 Jesus placed saliva and mud on the man's eyes and sent him to the Pool of Siloam to be washed and healed. 

We would like to be sent to the Pool of Siloam by Jesus. 

To be washed of our iniquities and illnesses. 

Blessed. 

And in being Blessed to bring others this Blessing of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Living Water

Jesus was asked to heal a man who was deaf and mute. 

Jesus placed His fingers in the man's ears. 

And this is where we pray for people with ear and hearing trouble. 

And Jesus touched the man's tongue 

and the man could hear and speak plainly again. 

Being mindful, Jesus told His Brother James, 

we are always invited to ask our Father for Wisdom. 

We ask You, for these many Blessings, Father God.

Jesus above the water

Jesus had sent His Ministers out two by two. 

After John the Baptist had died, 

Jesus fed the multitudes beside the Shining Sea of Galilee, 

He fed them Bread and Fish. 

Jesus mourned the loss of John the Baptist. 

We pray the Day of The Lord,

 we will encounter and be filled with the Mercies of God. 

We pray to finish well.

Jesus climbed the mountain to Pray with His Father. 

We would like to be able to climb this mountain with Jesus all the days of our lives, without pain and being encumbered. We pray to bring all we Love to See Jesus Pray with His Father. We pray to go back down the mountain and see Jesus, as Living Water, walk on water. We pray all of our loved ones see Jesus immediately raise Peter out of the water and to the safety of the boat. We ask this miracle for ourselves and those we Love.

We ask You, Father, to see the comfort and trust Jesus has sleeping in the Boat. 

We pray we see, with those we Love, 

Jesus calm the winds and the water to the perfect peace of Jesus Christ. 

This is our God. 

We ask to be sealed this day and always, for ourselves 

and those we Love in Jesus Christ, God's Son, Forever. 

We give thanks, our dear friend was healed and blessedly free of Cancer

in Heaven. For his family.

In Jesus, our Lord, we thank You for many prayers. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus 

John 15:11 ~ your Joy

 

Latin is Pate for Head and Pater for Father, 

essentially a Latin joke about

 how we Live

John 15:11

These things I have spoken to you, 

that my joy may be in you, 

and that your joy may be full.

The Nature of God, revealed in Jesus Christ, is for mercy more than He is for sacrifice.

Jesus is God and we are never going to walk on water in this life. We will never have the joy of healing the blind and the deaf. We will see prayers of Jesus and Father provide healing.

What we do need to do is establish our Joy in God Himself.

Where is your willingness - your joy - your delight in Jesus?

2013
The woman wearing the silver cross and blue shirt in the photo, kicked off an enormous debate in the U.K., in 2013, to be able to wear her cross.

Many people said she should change jobs away from the airline. The courts upheld her right to her belief in Jesus and to wear the cross.

Another woman -Audrey Jarvis, a liberal arts major, asked until she received permission to wear her cross necklace. Her boss at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California said no. Sonoma State University said, “It was absolutely an inappropriate action for him to make that request of her,” the representative said, noting that the school’s president, Ruben Arminana is trying, through Kashack, to reach Jarvis for an apology. She spoke up and spoke up to wear her cross.

You have to love this persistence for something wonderful.

5 years ago, we said 1/3 of the World population is Christian, our largest Christian world. Today, we worry about birth rates.  The birth rates of most Catholic nations are just as high as Muslim countries. The rest of the world is 12 to 16 babies as compared to 25 per 100 in the more populous religions. Billy Graham said this best - it's all going to work out. The Last Chapter of the Book is alive and active.

At the last Bible Study I attended, a third of the smaller group - about towards the end of all the Bible Study weeks - did say how they worship at home. This was Before the Pandemic!

This is after all  - deeply held conviction. In a major and growing denomination, of 8 women - 3 take prayer and prayer and then make communion at home. 2019.

As Abraham or David might have, minus the Theology Degree. This inward beauty is not just plastered about. Held tenderly as a practice to be closer to God. And yet - longing to help others have this internal and eternal Love.

We take our life's experiences and find a way to tell about how we really Love Jesus. Carefully choosing. I have a small fish with a cross on my car. And this year someone taking something out to my car said, "I like your fish and cross!" "Body of Christ!" "Body of Jesus Christ!" It's a lot like the First Century. This shared warmth. I love people to tell me, "I will pray for you." And as we left our Vacation Cruise, our concierge, Armondo, put his hand on my shoulder and got misty-eyed and said, "I will miss you, God bless you."

These shared moments show us How Deep and How Wide and How Fervently and How Dearly God has placed the Light of Mankind in us - today. 2023.

The Light of Christ is in all mankind - John 1

Yes.
We are sure we are supposed to tell non-believers of Jesus Christ. Yes.
There is Adventure to be had in having on a cross - even on your car. We miss The Communion of Saints - goes far. Very far. The people of Jesus are the spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church. The Eternal Body of Christ living and the dead, those on earth, in heaven.

I heard on the radio of a man who loved to sing to Christian Radio and forgot his windows were all down,  he was belting out the Song of Praise. The woman next to him rolled down her windows, had on the same radio station and they had a few minutes of Praise of God's Love. Wonder what they were singing?

Abundant - what God gives - Life.

With all heartfelt sincerity

Cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never, Never, Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, Serve the Lord.

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people.

When we say we will carry the Cross of Jesus - we are also saying in our heart. Jesus as God's Son is the only one called to the Salvation of mankind. He is Worthy. Carry the cross - in your heart.

When we say, our God is a consuming fire. We are saying our mind, our soul, our heart will carry Jesus with us with Great Love and Joy until our heart beats slowly and has burned out in the consuming fire and revives in our Eternal Home. A campfire of the warmth of God's Beauty has provided to our Thanks.

When we say Christ may dwell in our hearts through faith, we carry this Love given to us - to share and rejoice and be humbled by His Grace.


And in the long road and in the warmth He brings to our hearts, we pray together that you and I and the people coming to God's love now and babies to be born and loved - are being rooted and grounded in love we may have power in Love, Hope and faith for the Joy and Peace God's Love brings.

As we live the consuming fire - together with all the saints, to comprehend in each of us the length and width and height and depth of His love. In faith, we fan the flame to know God saves the world today for mankind. The love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

Amen in Jesus Christ, Who alone is our Great Savior. Amen.

Our God Lives!

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus

John 5:24 ~ Eternal Life

 

Lamentations 3:22-23 

The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; 

His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; 

Great is your Faithfulness.

Genesis 3:8

And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden 

in the cool of the day

Psalm 68:19

Blessed be the Lord,

Who daily loads us with benefits, even

The God of our Salvation

John 5:24

Truly, truly, I say to you,

whoever hears My Word

and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life.

He does not come into judgment

but has passed from death to life.

A Day to God is Thousands of Years. 

Explains Simon. Simon is from Bethsaida. His family found new government incentives to obtain piscary rights, providing a Large city and the surrounding area, with their daily food supply.  His new hometown is Capernaum. The new initiative was fruitful and Simon and his brother Andrew built the largest home in the area, complete with the bells and whistles of a view, finely finished out and being near the center of community ideas and philosophies of God. When Simon was shown how to increase sales to the top of the line - almost the breaking point - Simon was ready to retire. He asked Jesus to look away from Simon - a sinful man.

Simon frequently reads about Moses. 

When Moses met God, God showed Moses how to place his arm in his tunic to find Leprosy. God then cured Moses and told Moses he could show Pharaoh this discovery of healing. Moses was not going to find out about displaying this type of healing again.

God tends to like people. Good thing - we are all people!

Jesus went up on Mount Tabor to introduce Peter, John and James to His Father in the Transfiguration. As they came down from the mountain - the Disciples greeted God by saying this father and son duo is beyond us. Jesus tells them to pray and continue to pray with faith. The father of the son cries out for God to help him have more faith.

John 6:29

Jesus told them, "This is the only work God wants from you: 

   Believe in the one he has sent."

Jesus also told us we Live 

by Every Word of God. 

Deuteronomy 8:3  

When God tells us faith is work - we find God means work.

Jesus says Daily:

Luke 18
1 Jesus told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart.

Jesus said to do this in the face of injustice and difficult times.

Philippians 4:4

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.

Matthew 18:10

These little ones. 

For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.

Even John the Baptist was seen to be Least in the Kingdom of Heaven.

 Jesus said consider all of mankind because the least of them represent Jesus.

Fear not little flock - it is the Father's Good Pleasure to give you the kingdom.

Matthew 28:20

Teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. 

And surely I am with you always, 

to the very end of the age.

Luke 15:31

“‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, 

and everything I have is yours.'"

John 5:17

Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at his work to this very day, 

and I too am working.”

1 Peter 5:7

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you

1 John 5:5

Who is it that overcomes the world 

except the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Abba, Father God,

We ask Your Hand and Your Heart turn to us. 

Help our prayers may align with Your Will. 

And in that agreement, our loved ones, 

our dearly held people will rejoice seeing the Wonders of God. 

In expectation, we open our hands and pray with Jesus.

Knowing as Creation prays for all of their loved ones

 - we have pleased You - 

circling the earth a

nd blessing our Nation 

With the Nations praying for more Heaven on earth. 

And we have Blessed You when we earnestly say, 

Thank You, Father God.

Thank You, You hear us, Father God. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yay Jesus