Matthew 1:16-25 ~ he considered these things

Matthew 6:21 

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

Jesus would see Joseph in His Father's Kingdom

Church History places

Joseph right by St. Patrick's Day

Matthew 1:16-25

Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.

17 So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. 

When His Mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. 

19 And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.

 20 But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, 

“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. 21 She will bear a son, and you shall call His Name Jesus, for He will Save His people from their sins.” 

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet:

23 “Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son,

    and they shall call His Name Immanuel”

    (which means, God with us). 

24 When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife, 25 but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called His Name Jesus.

When we want more of Jesus Christ, we learn more about the years God made private.

We see the heart of God reaching out for Joseph, son of David.  Chosen as David was among many sons of Jesse. Oh, the company Joseph keeps!

 1 Corinthians 15:33

Bad company ruins good morals

Matthew 6:21 

For where your treasure is, 

there your heart 

will be also.

Matthew 5:8 

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Proverbs 20:11 

Even a child makes himself known by his acts, 

by whether his conduct is pure and upright

1 John 3:18

 

Little children, 

let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth

Titus 1:16 

They profess to know God, 

but they deny Him by their works.

Luke 6:44-46

For each tree is known by its own fruit. 

For figs are not gathered from thornbushes,

 nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush. 

45 The good person out of the good treasure of his heart

 produces good, 

and 

the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, 

for out of the abundance of the heart 

his mouth speaks.

46 “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you? 

Proverbs 27:19

 

As in water face reflects face, 

so the heart of man reflects the man.

Mark 7:21–23 

Actions are not merely random or external; 

they are the result 

of what is nurtured in the heart 

Jesus teaches the human heart is the source of all evil actions, sin arrives from within. Immorality, theft, murder, and greed—as outflows of an unrenewed heart, which ultimately defile a person. 

"For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil 

thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, 

wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, 

slander, pride, foolishness."

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart 

with all vigilance, 

for from it flow the springs of life.

Abba, Father,

 Heavenly Father, 

bind us together in unity and love 

reflecting 

Your heart. 

Renew our strength in You

Jesus Christ, 

fill our minds with calm 

and

 Your Holy Spirit fill us 

with lasting tranquility

May Christ dwell in our hearts through faith

We will be rooted and grounded in love, 

have strength to comprehend with all the saints 

what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 

and 

to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, 

that we will be filled 

with all the fullness of God.

Now to Jesus Christ

Who is able to keep us from stumbling 

and 

present us blameless before the presence of His Glory 

with great joy, 

to the only God, 

our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, 

be glory, 

majesty, dominion, and authority, 

before all time and now and forever. 

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 seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And the 2026 birth

of our

first Grandchild.

Jesus Christ, please,

Your blessings of

Health, Peace,

Wisdom

and Prosperity

for His Glory!

Bless our Nation

and the Nations to have peace.

Abundantly Bless those who 

serve this Nation

and 

protect others.

We pray the Large prayers of Jesus, 

the bless us prayers. 

The seeds of the young generation bloom 

and 

have the Holy Spirit rise up in them.

 The youth will have Your Power 

to beat their swords into plowshares 

and  

their spears into pruning hooks. 

Nation will not take up war anymore.

BURNED UP TO 750,000 ACRES OF NEBRASKA. THAT'S OVER 1%, APPROACHING 2% OF THE TOTAL LAND AREA OF MY STATE. WE HAVE HAD ONE FATALITY, ROSEMARY WYDEN, A GRANT MOTHER OF 12 DIED AT A RANCH NEAR ARTHUR, NEBRASKA. 

WE'VE ALSO HAD HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IMPACTED BY THESE FIRES

. I ASK ALL NEBRASKANS AND ALL AMERICANS TO PRAY FOR THE VICTIMS OF THIS TERRIBLE FIRE. 

THOSE WINDS CAN AY. THOSE WINDS CAN DRIVE THAT FIRE VERY, VERY FAST. SO BE PREPARED TO EVACUATE. PLEASE DON'T STAY. IF YOU STAY TOO LONG, YOU'RE PUTTING YOURSELF AND THE FIREFIGHTERS AT RISK, WHO ARE TRYING TO PUT OUT THIS FIRE AND PROTECT YOU

And Thank You 

Edward

his eye heals

and I

sleep well

and feel strong all day long.

Thank You, Father, 

for Jesus Christ the Messiah. 

Lord of All.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus

† 

Genesis 30 ~ What shall I give you

 

Genesis 30

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister.

 She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” 

2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?” 

3 Then she said, “Here is my servant Bilhah; go in to her, so that she may give birth on my behalf, that even I may have children through her.” 4 So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her. 5 And Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son. 

6 Then Rachel said, “God has judged me, and has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan. 7 Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings, I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife. 10 Then Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 And Leah said, “Good fortune has come!” so she called his name Gad. 12 Leah's servant Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 And Leah said, “Happy am I! For women have called me happy.” So she called his name Asher.

14 In the days of wheat harvest, Reuben went and found mandrakes in the field and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son's mandrakes.” 

15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes also?” 

Rachel said, “Then he may lie with you tonight in exchange for your son's mandrakes.” 

16 When Jacob came from the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have hired you with my son's mandrakes.” So he lay with her that night. 17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages because I gave my servant to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.

19 And Leah conceived again, and she bore Jacob a sixth son. 20 Then Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun. 21 Afterward, she bore a daughter and called her name Dinah.

22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 23 She conceived and bore a son and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” 24 And she called his name Joseph, saying, “May the Lord add to me another son!”





25 As soon as Rachel had borne Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own home and country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, that I may go, for you know the service that I have given you.” 

27 But Laban said to him, “If I have found favor in your sight, I have learned by divination that the Lord has blessed me because of you. 28 Name your wages, and I will give it.” 

29 Jacob said to him, “You yourself know how I have served you, and how your livestock has fared with me. 30 For you had little before I came, and it has increased abundantly, and the Lord has blessed you wherever I turned. But now when shall I provide for my own household also?” 


31 He said, “What shall I give you?” 

Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this for me, I will again pasture your flock and keep it: 32 let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled among the goats, and they shall be my wages. 33 So my honesty will answer for me later, when you come to look into my wages with you. Every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats and black among the lambs, if found with me, shall be counted stolen.” 

34 Laban said, “Good! Let it be as you have said.” 

35 But that day Laban removed the male goats that were striped and spotted, and all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had white on it, and every lamb that was black, and put them in the charge of his sons. 36 And he set a distance of three days' journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob pastured the rest of Laban's flock.

37 Then Jacob took fresh sticks of poplar and almond and plane trees, and peeled white streaks in them, exposing the white of the sticks. 38 He set the sticks that he had peeled in front of the flocks in the troughs, that is, the watering places, where the flocks came to drink. And since they bred when they came to drink, 39 the flocks bred in front of the sticks and so the flocks brought forth striped, speckled, and spotted. 40 And Jacob separated the lambs and set the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the black in the flock of Laban. He put his own droves apart and did not put them with Laban's flock. 41 Whenever the stronger of the flock were breeding, Jacob would lay the sticks in the troughs before the eyes of the flock, that they might breed among the sticks, 42 but for the feebler of the flock he would not lay them there. So the feebler would be Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's. 


43 Thus the man increased greatly and had large flocks, female servants and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Psalm 10:4

In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

James 3:16

For where jealousy and selfish 

ambition 

exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not bring justice to the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

God tells us life is difficult.
Really difficult.

The Tribe of Israel is going to be so difficult, finding a quote in the Bible of Beloved Brotherhood Family is going to have to wait to James and John - Sons of Zebedee.

We find the Best Scripture Quotes on Brotherhood are about believers of Jesus as Family.

Luke 19:8

And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, 

“Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”

In communication, in emotion - we see spottiness.

Isaiah 55:8

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, 

declares the Lord.

All this selfish consideration. Some of this is harmless, some to survive manipulation. Some to provide for the family. Some is evil with evil consequences.

Proverbs 14:29

Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.

Jude 1:3  

Jude the Brother of Jesus Christ

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

This verse applies well. It is the endurance of the godly in the adversity when we all want to be the Prodigal Son and run off.

We acknowledge we are "The Instant Gratification" Generation. This situation deals with the haste of a quick answer and a quick fix.

Proverbs 19:2

Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.

Rachel and Leah face the consequences of payback.

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

Galatians 6:7

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.

In being centered on self-win

Numbers 14:18

‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’

Exodus 20:5

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, 

for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, 

visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children 

to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.

Proverbs 21:15

When justice is done, it is a joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

Isaiah 61:8

For I the Lord love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, 

which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you,

 and the cries of the harvesters 

have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.

What would God say about this subversive group of Gentiles?

God would choose to begin Israel from gentiles fighting over placement.

Romans 3:22-24

And this righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ 

to 

all 

who believe.

There is no distinction,

for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

and 

are justified freely by His grace.

The goal is to be

Zacchaeus

Our lives lived well

that

Jesus would recognize us.

In continuing to do goodness. The Family of Jesus would see reason to want to honor Jacob.

Prayers of The Righteous: The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

James 5:16

When Jesus tells us He is the Way, Truth and Life - we find Jesus knows of what He is teaching us. And Jacob demonstrates to us we will even wrestle with God - and God will bless us. The Bible is Living and Active and the nature of mankind continues to delight God in Proverbs 8 and causes God to want to save the world in Jesus Christ.

How could Jacob have survived Essau and Rebecca and Isaac and Laban and Leah and Rachel and Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, and Benjamin without knowing and appreciating the Goodness of God.

†Jacob finds his strength in the Joy of the Lord.
And Jacob takes the spots in life and does well and goes very far - healing and forgiving. At the end of Jacob's life, Jacob does not want any of his children to steal a blessing and provides the Major Portion Blessing for all of his children. And for us - learning God is not limited in His Love and Goodness.

Abba, Father,

Genesis 18:14 

 Is anything too hard for the Lord?

2 Corinthians 1 ~ New American Standard

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

The Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

Who comforts us in all our affliction

so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction

with the comfort 

with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance,

so also our comfort 

is abundant through Christ.

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 seek and find 

and bring,

to become,

 more Heaven

to this earth.

And the 2026 birth

of our

first Grandchild.

Jesus Christ, please,

Your blessings of

Health, Peace,

Wisdom

and Prosperity

for His Glory!

e pray the Large prayers of Jesus bless us prayers. 

The seeds of the young generation bloom 

and 

have the Holy Spirit rise up in them.

 the youth will have Your Power to beat their swords into plowshares 

and  

their spears into pruning hooks. 

Nation will not take up war anymore.

And Thank You 

Edward

his eye heals

and I

sleep well

and feel strong all day long.

Thank You, Father, 

for Jesus Christ the Messiah. 

Lord of All.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †

Yes, The Lord Fulfills His Purpose

Thank You, Jesus

†