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Monday, December 18, 2023

John 3: 17 ~ eternal Life







Genesis 12:1-6


Now the Lord said to Abram, 
“Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”


4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. 5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, 6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh



Lessons and Carols

The Church is packed. The Joy of Worshiping the Lord
with Christmas Caroling
even the balcony is busy

Watching the Way, Truth and Life of
God's Promises

Remembering who you are

Isaiah 43:1 

Now thus says the Lord, 
He who created you, O Jacob, 
He who formed you, O Israel: 
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; 
I have called you by name, you are Mine.








John 3:17




For God so LOVED the world, that He gave His only Son, 
that whoever believes in Him 
should not perish 
but have eternal life.














Abba, Father,

Dwell in me,
Dwell in us,
Dwell in those we Love,
Help us to seek You first.
And we will finish well, in Jesus Christ. 

Help us find and bring
to become
 more Heaven
to this earth.

Our God is working. His Son, 
Jesus is working.

In Jesus,
Amen.




♔ Lord Jesus Saves †




Bless the Lord Jesus


Thank You Jesus







Romans 15:4-13 ~ God's truthfulness

 


Christmas, 50 miles from Corinth, in Athens.

The Light of Jesus has gone forth for 2 millenniums.


"Romans 15:10-20
Owned by University of Michigan, Library at Ann Arbor
Size 15 x 22.9 cm
Palaeographic Description
The ink is dark brown and has faded little. There has been little rubbing of the surface, so that almost every letter is still legible. The writing is of the book hand and the letters are carefully formed and well spaced. There are many slight spaces left in the text, often where they serve admirably for punctuation.

Acquisition purchased in 1930/1931
Language Greek
Genre literary
Author St. Paul
Type of Text/Title of Work Epistles of Paul"  - 
As stated in the Library of the University of Michigan.

\mathfrak{P}46 Papyrus 46 is 300 Chapters of the New Testament - Found Intact and exactly as shown.





Athens celebrates the birth of Jesus. And 50 miles from Athens, is Corinth. 


2 millenniums ago

We know Paul wrote Romans in Corinth because he mentions Phoebe. Phoebe was a deacon of the church in Cenchreae, a port to the east of Corinth. Erastus, mentioned in Romans 16:23,also lived in Corinth, being the city's commissioner for public works and city treasurer. Written in exactly the timeline of Paul and his travels. Within 55 AD to 57 AD. 

Papyrus 46 enters the brand-new debate on verb usage and is in the University of Michigan's Library System for decades, as first century written. Clear, legible and preserved as Precious Word of God. Definitely, Papyrus 46 was being carefully transported during the long life of John, The Beloved Disciple of Jesus.











Deuteronomy 31:8
c 1200 BC

The LORD Himself goes before you
 and will be with you; 
He will never leave you nor forsake you. 
Do not be afraid; 
do not be discouraged.





Romans 15:4-13




For whatever was written in former days 
was written for our instruction

That through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.

May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, 6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 7 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

8 For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs, 9 and in order that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy. As it is written,

“Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles,
    and sing to your name.”

10 And again it is said,

“Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people.”

11 And again,

“Praise the Lord, all you Gentiles,
    and let all the peoples extol Him.”

12 And again Isaiah says,

“The root of Jesse will come,
    even He who arises to rule the Gentiles;
in Him will the Gentiles hope.”


13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.








John 1 

48 Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” 

Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” 

49 Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” 

50 Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” 

51 And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending 
and descending on the Son of Man.”






Abba, Father,

Dwell in us,
Give us Your Blessing, we ask.
Let the Joy we have in You
be our Strength.

In Jesus, we want Your help to seek You first.
And we will finish well in Jesus Christ!

For my family.
For all families and our Christmas 2023
to be remembered as a season of hope
endurance and encouragement
 our voice, to glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
Rejoice

 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, 
so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.

In this day, 
we will make Requests of Jesus.
In the Holy Name of Jesus,

We pray all those who have been
strengthened and encouraged
during the Pandemic
in their faith,
Will Remain in Your Joy and Love.

We Pray for this Nation
and the turbulence we see
we pray for truth.

We pray for Israel and Ukraine
and the end of Pandemic recovery, the ongoing struggles to cease.
We pray for Strength.

We pray for our families
not to accept the unacceptable
for their Children.
A Nation protects their Children.

Now to Father God, 
Who is able to do far more abundantly 
than all that we ask or think, 
according to the power at work within us, 
to Him be glory in the Church and 
in Christ Jesus 
throughout all generations, 
forever and ever.
 Amen.



The Mercy of Your Touch, Jesus. Amen.







♔ Lord Jesus Saves †




Bless the Lord Jesus


Thank You Jesus












Saturday, December 16, 2023

Psalm 31~ incline Your Ear



Psalm 31




1 In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me!


2 Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily!

Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me! 3 For you are my rock and my fortress; and for your name's sake you lead me and guide me; 4 you take me out of the net they have hidden for me, for you are my refuge.


5 Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me, O LORD, faithful God.

6 I hate those who pay regard to worthless idols, but I trust in the LORD. 7 I will rejoice and be glad in your steadfast love, because you have seen my affliction; you have known the distress of my soul, 8 and you have not delivered me into the hand of the enemy; you have set my feet in a broad place.

9 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also.

10 For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. 11 Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. 12 I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. 13 For I hear the whispering of many-- terror on every side!-- as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.

14 But I trust in you, O LORD; I say, "You are my God." 

15 My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! 16 Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love! 17 O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon you; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol.

18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt.

19 Oh, how abundant is your goodness, which you have stored up for those who fear you and worked for those who take refuge in you, in the sight of the children of mankind! 

20 In the cover of your presence you hide them from the plots of men;
you store them in your shelter from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me when I was in a besieged city. 22 I had said in my alarm, "I am cut off from your sight." But you heard the voice of my pleas for mercy when I cried to you for help.

23 Love the LORD, all you His saints!
The LORD preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride.

24 Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD!




To be part of the New Covenant is a Jesus bless you, always, Blessing.


In the Old Testament, a man is sent with a message from God. He is told, do not get off the path. Just give the message. And he has a problem or two, and he overcomes - delivers the message and is on his way home - when a 'man of God' stops him to have a visit in his home and the man goes because the message is delivered and the 'man of God' is helping.  It was nothing of the sort. The man returns home to find he has ruined the message and voided the instructions of God. The man is condemned. 

We are so Very Fortunate to be part of the New Covenant of Jesus Christ.


Deuteronomy 31:8

The LORD himself goes before you
 and will be with you; 
He will never leave you nor forsake you. 
Do not be afraid; 
do not be discouraged.

God, in the New Covenant, has covered us in the Name of Jesus. He wants us to put Him first, but because of the Redemption of Jesus Christ, is never going to leave us. We are not ever left or forsaken, of God, for all who call on Jesus as God, believing in their heart.

Ephesians 6 addresses the reality we learned in the Vietnam War, the torturers knew you can tear people down with continual harm. It was the goal, actually. And because God is Jesus - and Jesus is the exact image of the Merciful Father - we have Refuge with Jesus  -who makes all things work for good for those who love the Lord and want to work according to His Purpose.

What we learn from people like Corrie Ten Boom, for people in my family who had sudden death and sudden divorce completely change their world - we learn to let God shape our lives and get on with Life.  All things work together for good, for those who work according to His purpose.  Hindsight tells us, we will sometimes only see the good from far down the journey in life.  We don't let evil overcome us, we search for the joy underneath, learning to have the hope again. Corrie Ten Boom just did not let evil reshape her into evil.

Preparing for Christmas, to have the joy of God entrusting us with His tender, newborn Son again.


Psalm 51:10

Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit 
within me.



Ezekiel 36:26

Moreover, I will give you a new heart 
and put a new spirit within you;
 and I will remove the heart of stone 
from your flesh 
and give you a heart of flesh.


Deuteronomy 30:6

“Moreover 
The Lord your God will circumcise your heart 
and the heart of your descendants, 
to love the Lord
 your God 
with all your heart 
and with 
all your soul, 
so that you may live.



He's got the whole world in His Hands.
He's got the wind and the rain in his hands.

He's got the whole world in His Hands.
He's got the little tiny baby in His Hands. 

He's got the whole world in His Hands.
He's got you and me, brother, in His Hands. 

He's got the whole world in His Hands.
He's got you and me, sister, in His Hands. 

He's got the whole world in His Hands.

He's got everybody here in His Hands. 
He's got the whole world in His Hands.









♔ Lord Jesus Saves †





Bless the Lord Jesus


Thank You, Jesus

















Friday, December 15, 2023

Psalm 23 ~ Preparest

 Apologies, this Post is late, for the last 2 trips to Dallas, my phone and all others suddenly won't connect to my computer to be wifi or hotspot. Then, when we get a connection with Edward's laptop and computer, it takes up to 40 minutes to make the connection work. Then it cuts out and refuses to save the work or connect. The next day, I publish yesterday's post with my phone, that suddenly won't do copies or paste. No cooperation.

Please pray for the recompensation of many losses. And not to suffer the evil.


POST from 2018



A house. Your home. God's House. God's Home.


This week we were discussing Holy Spirit moments. 


I know several people with this same Refrigerator Page.


We all got this from a spring day in Celina, Texas in June of 1992.

A Beautiful Day. One of the Lord's Perfect Days. A few people were smiling and crying. It was a Homecoming. Anita Lucille Richardson Willard was going Home. At age 94, her wedding band had been on 52 years without her Ray.

And now she was with her Ray and all was right with her world. God is in His Heaven. My mother cried when her minister read Psalm 23. My mother impromptu told us all - know Grandmother Anita truly lived her life for Jesus, her Lord.  Anita had led a 42-year Bible Study at Kessler Park United Methodist. And after the funeral, my godparents and my mother and I just felt we had to recite the 23rd Psalm, even after the Minister had left the grave site. My brother put his hand on our shoulders. We all there that day - recited. 

I asked my mother how she had come by the beautiful Psalm 23 on her refrigerator. It had fallen from Anita's worn Bible. The page of Anita's Psalm Bible. Worn out by Grandmother Anita. Probably printed about the time of her marriage, around 1928. I asked my mother if she could find the same yellow paper and copy this for me. My godmother had grown up with my mother and Marilyn wanted a copy, too. (My Godfather was holding his new granddaughter, Marilyn. We all oohed and ahhed over baby Marilyn with Marilyn's name and my godfather's beautiful eyes. Our next funeral, unknown to us, was going to be purely wonderful 62-year-old, all our lives - Marilyn. We still miss her and love her.) My cousin Dick had come from Franklinton and he said to mail him one. My brother has one. Quite a few people that day.

And Grandmother Anita left us The Word of the Lord. As a memory of a day, a beautiful to Jesus woman went home to be with her Jesus. Her husband Ray. Both brothers named Frank. Six brothers, six sisters. 

The future is uncertain. Is it? I'd say in Jesus - The Homecoming is Certain.






This Word of God is a Solid Foundation Lived by Grandmother Anita.
This Word of God is a Promise.
This Word of God she held in her hand and lived with her life.
This Word of God is a Knowing -
The Next Homecoming is for us all in Jesus
- A Certainty.



Grandmother told us of Dancing and Somersaults and Rolling and Joy she dreamed of Heaven.

And we know she wants us to have Joy in this Life.
Just like Jesus in John 14, 15 and 16. Love, Joy. Peace.

Live Eternally.
Live Today.
Live for Jesus Christ.
Love.









If we only had a ukulele for this one...


Abba, Our Heavenly Father,

Give me oil in my Lamp keep me burning!!!
Give me oil in my Lamp, I pray!

Give me oil in my Lamp keep me burning!!!
Keep me Burning till the Break of DAY!!!

Cover us all in Jesus, Keep us Going!!!
Keep us going till this is Thee Day!!!

Jesus Our Shepherd
Jesus Our Lord
Our Alleluia in Jesus. Amen!!!






We pray for a 
Time of Healing
for All People
in 
Jesus Christ
Savior 
God's Only Son



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Bless the Lord Jesus


Thank You Jesus








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Who Jesus Is
1 Timothy 1:1-11 ~ God our Savior, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope
Matthew 16:13-20 ~ who do people say the Son of Man is?

Good News for us to remember and Think Upon
Animals are found in Heaven ~ 6 Prophets See Animals in Heaven

Anger, Jealousy=Trouble




The Bible explains the Bible, Prophetically

Bible - in your hand, today

Bible Accuracy



Blessing







Blessing our Father God

Blessing - unaware

Boundaries

Brothers
Christmas - His Word Upholds the Universe - December 25th


Psalm 135 ~ who is in your midst
John 1:1-14, 16, 29-51 ~ He was in the world

Details - Putting it all together and discovering it is about God

Psalm 108 ~ In triumph I will parcel out Shechem

Determine your own path, just love Him

Judges 16 ~ like any other man
John 4:43-54 ~ Doing what Jesus says


Earthquake

Every Day, Still Today
Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow


Exodus - History












Heavenly Hosts
His Messengers of Light












Elements of Nature Displaying HIS Glory
Exodus 40:16-38 ~ In the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, the tabernacle was erected.

I Decide What is Right and Wrong - God noticed this in the Garden of Eden from Eve

Individualism and Groups

It's the End of the World as We Know it, And I Feel Fine. (One of our most read posts.)
Grandpa - The Bible is Really the Life Story of People and
their Abba









Gates of Heaven


Gifts of God, all of us


Giving - God certainly is





























Glory


God sees His Creation as Good!!!


Gravity






















Good Friday

Gossip

Gratitude

Greatest

Grief, Forgiveness, Homecoming


Hated Emotion - Fear




































History - Is There History Showing Jesus was Alive - VERY EXTENSIVE HISTORY

Holiness


Holy Spirit ~ Manifestations

Homeward Bound, still a sojourner

Honey, Do this

Invitation
John 3:31-36 ~ that God is true

Israel - Destroyed Completely and Rebuilt. A sign of Jesus. Existing today.

Jesus clearly put a Foundation for His Resurrection to be Believed by the Multitudes of all of Israel and the Nations

Jesus and His Childhood Privacy
Nazareth - What Jesus did See Growing Up

John the Beloved Disciple


The Journey of Joseph


























Live It
Psalm 117 ~ Praise the Lord
Psalm 82 ~ rescue the weak and the needy
2 Samuel 4:1-12 ~ David answered
Hebrews 12 ~ Thankful
Psalm 31:3-8,17-21 ~ Thou hast redeemed me
Isaiah 40:1-11 ~ His reward is with Him
Matthew 13:31-32 ~ the birds of the air come and perch in its branches
Matthew 6:25-34 ~ your heavenly Father knows that you need
Luke 11:29-32 ~ Rise up
Psalm 126 ~ shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves
Luke 14:15-24 ~ there is still room
Joshua 1:1-9 ~ I am giving
Acts 5 ~ speak in the name of Jesus
John 1 ~ the Light shines
John 3:5-8 ~ born again
~ they went on from there and passed through Galilee
Judges 20 ~ Israel

Losing a Loved One - Passing ON

Revelation 21:22-27 ~ those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life

Not Being Tossed Back and Forth with Emotion
Ephesians 4 ~ speaking the truth in Love

Marriage
Romans 7:1-12 ~ bear fruit for God
1 Corinthians 7 ~ For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband
Genesis 37:12-24 ~ when Reuben
Psalm 143 ~ Your steadfast love
Psalm 86 ~ For great is your steadfast love

Media... taking it down the path
1 Corinthians 10 ~ Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God





Mercy, an Inseparable Component of Truth
Matthew 23:23-26 ~ clean
1 Samuel 12 ~ serve the Lord with all your heart
Matthew 22:34-40 ~ The great and first commandment. And a second is like it

Miscellaneous
Job 38 ~ Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Psalm 19 ~ the heavens declare the glory of God
2 Kings 5:1-15 ~ a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper
1 Chronicles 13 ~ the Lord blessed the household of Obed-edom










Peace




Pharisee ~ Religion
Luke 11:42-46 ~ Woe to you Pharisees!


Pictorial Images of the 12 Tribes of Israel








Picture It


















Overcoming, with God's help!


Positive Attitude in Trouble




Prophets - the Law and the Old Men in Robes or People who Love the Lord. Flaws and Virtues. What They Sought in the Lord and What Drew Them to Him.



Praise



























Prayer

Psalm 91 ~ Prayer is always heard, God has an open door policy



Prayer Needs




Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words

Promises

Prosperity Gospel











Repeat and Repeat







Rest

Restore

Revelation 8:2
Seven Angels who stand before God

Revisionist History - Moses and Jeremiah said
there would be days like this
Deuteronomy 8
Jeremiah 23


Rock


SALVATION! What is needed?

Science - Blinded me - No - He Who Opens the Eyes of the Blind - With Science!!!

Second (3rd or 4th) Rate Seventh Level of Heaven

Seventh Level of Heaven







Shepherd

Smile!



Time Management





Life and Travels of Paul

Shroud

Transfiguration



True
The World Changed Rapidly after the first Easter



Trust Him

Uncomfortable Scripture

Video Game Player

Visual







Who is like our God?

Willingly

Works and Grace
Mark 1:4-11 ~ You are my beloved Son; with You I am well pleased

Worry

Wrathful, Nasty Old God from the Old Testament

Yahweh




Years - Thousands of Them are Yesterday in His Sight


80 Books of the Bible
Holy Spirit Approved by the First Council Nicaea and St. Nicholas
Included by the Essenes in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Today included by the Catholic Church
God wants to save the world.
The Apocrypha has Purpose; other cultures blend here.





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