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Thursday, February 25, 2016

John 2 ~ You have kept the good wine until now +++

 





Jesus is doing what we want our Savior to be doing! He is visiting His Family. Jesus is going to a Celebration of  Life, Love, Marrriage.


John 2


On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.

Jesus is traveling the 16.5 miles between Cana, near Nazareth and he is planning on bringing His Mother and brothers back to Capernaum for a vacation. The journey is part of the celebration and vacation.



 








2 Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.



3 When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”

4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” 

5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”


David had so very many flaws. And still David is chosen, Jesus is chosen to be a Son of David. David had virtues, he had a deep and abiding faith in Father God. David was obedient to God and God saw this as part of David's faith. Jesus demonstrated all His Life, His obedience to His Father. Baptism in the River Jordan by John the Baptist.

Luke 2
51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart. 52 And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Mary had worked to be a seamless family, acknowledged twice in the Gospels working to be part of Nazareth. Mary in wisdom knew Jesus was obedient to Father God and prayers were miraculous.







First Century Wine Jar from Jerusalem



6 Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons. 

















 9 When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom 10 and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.” 






11 This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.




Jesus spoke of wine 20 times in the Gospels. And Vineyards 20 times. Jesus chose His first step of His journey to be a Celebration of Life. He was not going to let His Mother down or the bride and groom. Jesus was displaying not only a fruitful, joyous life, but Love, Peace, Comfort, Encouragement, Diligence and Joy, real Joy. Life is crammed into ever aspect.

John, the disciple who lived until the 2nd Century, is telling first and foremost what John was eye witness to in the Ministry of Jesus, Son of God.


Philippians 4:5
Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

Ecclesiastes 9:7
Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

John 16
Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

John 17
and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

Psalm 104:15
wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts.


The Gifts Jesus bring us are:
~ Gentleness and Moderation
~ Joy, a Merry Heart
~Approval from God
~A Conversation in Relationship with asking and receiving and being filled with Joy.
~Knowing Jesus has Joy in His Creation.
~Jesus in our hearts gladdens us, makes us shine, causes His Face to Shine upon us, Lifting His Face in Smile, and
~ Jesus - sustains our Hearts with His Word alone.




 










 



 





12 After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

































 
 
13 The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 


The Temple was 36 acres.
From entrance to the very back, the Roman Stola, the building Herod built, to accommodate the money changers and the tradesmen. John is clearly telling us Jesus is not a meek and mild pleaser of mankind. Jesus is King. Jesus has Authority. He drove these people out of 36 acres. Usually a residential block is 3 acres. A man with a whip, with Temple Guards, a force to be reckoned with, is not going to do this. There is a Force of God at Work.

John is telling us this about Jesus in the first Chapters of John's Gospel.


14 In the temple he found those who were selling oxen and sheep and pigeons, and the money-changers sitting there. 15 And making a whip of cords, he drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and oxen.

And he poured out the coins of the money-changers and overturned their tables.

16 And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”


17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will consume me.”

The Disciples say zeal. Fervor. This Temple belongs to Jesus King of Kings. Was always built for Jesus.

This is the first Generation to Know the Name of Jesus.

Isaiah 30 

Behold, the name of the Lord comes from afar,
burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke;
his lips are full of fury,
and his tongue is like a devouring fire;
 

28 his breath is like an overflowing stream
that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.

29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.




We learn about this Act and Wonder of Jesus as God.
The Name of God wondered even in Numbers 6, the Blessing of Aaron is know Known.

Jesus is burning with anger, and perhaps the Cloud that filled the Temple was at work with Jesus.
Something this Generation understands from the Photos of the Hubble Telescope.

Jesus spoke Fury. This Tongue caused the heart to reveal the Devouring Fire of God.
Jesus Spoke from His Breath an overflowing stream.
His Words have impact to the wrong doers like hair upon their neck reveals Truth.
Jesus is capable to sift all the Nations of Israel to Rome about destruction, they knew.

Jesus is singing. Probably that the Lord God of Israel is One. Jesus has joy seeing the wrong doers flee.
He is as strong as Mount Sinai, yielding the Law of God. Jesus is as Strong as Mount Moriah the Rock of Israel, Holding up the Foundations of the Temple.

God has made the Voice of Jesus the Lord so strong He is Loud as the Trumpets the Children of Israel say are deafening. The Loudest Sound they had ever heard in their world.  The Blow of His arm is Strong and Yet the WORD OF GOD  Reigns. 

Amen.












18 So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”

 19 Jesus answered them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” 20 The Jews then said, “It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?” 21 But he was speaking about the temple of his body.




Matthew 7
28 And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, 29 for he was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes.






22 When therefore he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the Scripture and the word that Jesus had spoken.





23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing. 24 But Jesus on his part did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people 25 and needed no one to bear witness about man, for he himself knew what was in man.



2 million people flooded into Time Square when World War II was won.


Josephus recorded the food Passover required and the sacrifices - the total of People pouring in for Passover equals between 2.5 million and 3 million people. These people knew Jesus. Knew Jesus someday recorded in the Sanhedrin Counsel records still available and housed in Scotland. This Judea was controlled by Romans, a suburb of Syria. These are not uneducated people. And Jesus is shown to be King of the Jews. The History of the Works of God is available.

My generation was told the Census of Augustus was a myth. Pontius Pilate was a myth. This Generation has unfolded astonishing, profound, moving proof that millenniums later, God Almighty is still showing us in His Deeds God's Word is fully accurate.  This generation is the recipient of these archaeological proofs:

Pontius Pilate evidence is found twice in Israel and in the records of Rome.
The Census of Augustus is discovered.

The entire Hittite Empire was said to be a myth. The Hittite Library was found intact and completely parallel the Scriptures God tells us He is Truth.

A pottery shard in the hometown of Goliath tells of the battle between David and Goliath. Perfect time dating.

The Palace of King David is found by a second generation Professor of Archaeology in Israel, from reading the description from Scripture. In the jail of David, according to Jeremiah being there with Baruch helping him, the seal of Baruch is found from being lost in 597 B.C.

The Babylonian Chronicles were ordered by Nebuchadnezzar II, the Exiles wrote of their days. The History of the Bible entirely parallels that of God's Word to us. Many, many people gave their lives that we might have the Bible in our hand today. They believed in faith God called and charged them to Journey with Father God.

The History Channel did an hour long television program on the Exodus and the evidence of the Plagues found. The Ipuwer Document, found at the base of a huge pyramid, even tells of the slaves being asked to leave loaded with Egyptian gold and crossing over the Red Sea by unexplained Weather that kills the pharaoh and his army. Thutmose III records in his tax records Joseph, Yahweh's servant and the creation of Goshen. Joseph is carved in the base of his huge statue. God could have flown the Children of Israel to Israel by His Word alone. Today and always - God is interested in what we do with - the journey. Just exactly as Jesus traveling by foot 16 miles to a wedding and another 16 miles with his family and Mother to vacation by the Sea of Galilee in beautiful, adult hometown of Jesus, Capernaum.

You have kept the good wine until now
All of these finds happened in our life time. Telling us God is revealing Himself to us.







Father God,

The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in You, Father God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see.

By faith, we see the world called into existence by Your Word.

Belief continues to catch our notice.


Noah became intimate with You, God. By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result caused his family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world.


By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to Your God call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations—the City designed and built by God.

By faith, barren Sarah was able to become pregnant, old woman as she was at the time, because she believed the One who made a promise would do what he said.


People of Faith, saw way off in the distance, People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true Home. We see why You, God, are so proud of them, and has a Kingdom waiting for them.

By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.

By an act of faith, Jacob blessed all of his sons on his deathbed and blessed each of Joseph’s sons in turn, blessing them with God’s blessing, not his own—as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.

By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.


By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. He chose a hard life with God’s people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. He valued suffering in the Messiah’s camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn’t touch them.

By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.

By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.

There are so many more—Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless—the world didn’t deserve them!—making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.


Father God, bless those we Love with the diligence of Your Steadfast Love this Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Gentleness will fill lives and souls. Bless the people You have given us. We ask for this Love to Reawaken the Joy of this Nation in You and this Light and Glory increase as Elisha to all the People of the World calling in Faith upon Jesus the Christ. Amen.


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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

John 1 ~ that Jesus might be revealed





John 1



In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Genesis 1

1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.


3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good


6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.


Witness. John, the Disciple who stayed, is recording not opinion, instead eye witness.

1 John 1:1
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched--this we proclaim concerning the Word of life.





9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.



John never felt he had been released from telling about Seeing Jesus become Light on top of the mountain. Seeing Moses, Elijah and Hearing Father God. John's life changed, he knew he was not pursuing a place in a Heavenly Kingdom, but walking with God. John would not leave Jesus. John fully understood exactly who Jesus was. Love.

One aspect of God. This is the Light people report seeing upon returning from death. The reality is Light itself is from God.


Mark 9
1 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.”

2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them.4 And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.



Jesus was becoming Light and wanted to be recognized only His Chifton was made to become Light, to look upon Love..



14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,
and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth.


Paul knew exactly the same witness of Jesus from the Road to Emmaus

1 Timothy 3

He appeared in the flesh,
was vindicated by the Spirit,
was seen by angels,
was preached among the nations,
was believed on in the world,
was taken up in glory.

These men of God, knew this by faith, seeing forward.




The Holy Spirit was revealing hearts. John the Baptist was held high in his worship.

Jesus understood saying
Luke 19:40
"I tell you," he replied, "if they keep quiet, the stones will cry out."



15 (John bore witness about him, 
and cried out, 
“This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) 

16 For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. 

17 For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. 

18 No one has ever seen God; the only God,who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.




9 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” 20 He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” 21 And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” 22 So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” 

23 He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”



24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) 25 They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?” 26 John answered them, “I baptize with water, but among you stands one you do not know, 27 even he who comes after me, the strap of whose sandal I am not worthy to untie.” 28 These things took place in Bethany across the Jordan, where John was baptizing.


Jesus was not going to turn people away.

Luke 9:50
"Do not stop him," Jesus said, "for whoever is not against you is for you."

Matthew 12:20
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he has brought justice through to victory.



29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 30 This is he of whom I said, ‘After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.’ 31 I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel.” 

32 And John bore witness: “I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him. 33 I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

34 And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God.”









35 The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, 36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!” 37 The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 38 Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, “What are you seeking?” And they said to him, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?”

39 He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.



Come and see -
The Bible is presenting us with so many archaeological finds, my generation began in ignorance. We were taught the Census of Augustus and Pontius Pilate were a myth. The Hittite Empire was a myth, until their entire library was uncovered to completely parallel the Bible as actual history. We have even found in this generation, David and Goliath on pottery of the correct age in Goliath's home town. The Palace of King David located from reading the Scripture. The seal of Baruch, the servant of Jeremiah found in the Bible in King David's prison exactly as Jeremiah wrote of Baruch helping Jeremiah in that exact place in 757 B.C. The Babylonian Chronicles exactly agree. The History Channel tells us of the Plagues of the Exodus are found. And the Ipuwer Papyrus tells us this is also true. The Tax rolls of Thutmose III tell of Joseph and Goshen.











40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus.

Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas” (which means Peter).


The Rock that kept Peter's bones intact is 80 feet below the altar of the Vatican.








43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” 44 Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

46 Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”

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.”






This is the exact living Word explanation, Father God knows our hearts.




Father God,

Always help our soul to be a warm hearth for Your Holy Spirit to dwell.

We will place steadfast love and justice in our souls
- being a joyous place of music.

Relying upon Jesus to be our righteousness and His gift to make
us blameless in the sight of God.

Jesus will be our integrity of heart within our souls.
We will cling to the Mercy and Grace of Jesus, Son of God.

We will speak truthfully and with mercy.
Placing a haughty look and arrogant heart far from our earnest
reverence of You, Father God.

Father God promises He will look with favor on the faithful in the land,
that we may dwell with Him.

We will put deceit and lies far from us in Jesus Christ.

And our eyes will behold Jesus in His Heavenly City.

We will be diligent in our prayers to Bless the People we Love
and the People You have given us. Amen in the Highest Name of Jesus.





♔ Lord Jesus Saves †
























Monday, February 22, 2016

May Your deeds be shown to Your servants, Your splendor to their children.





Jeremiah 23:7-8


7“Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when they shall no longer say, ‘As the Lord lives who brought up the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,’ 8 but ‘As the Lord lives who brought up and led the offspring of the house of Israel out of the north country and out of all the countries where hea had driven them.’ Then they shall dwell in their own land.”


What are we to say that is hopeful?

Jeremiah points out earnestly wanting to know Scriptures - as we are - is a sign of hope

When we admit we are not perfect people and need Jesus to be our righteousness. There is hope. When we see people have changed denominations looking for the Scripture to be preached as an Authoritative Word of God - this is wonderful and this is - This Generation.

Think about this as an idea - if we put all of this to a popular vote. 92% of Congress professes Jesus is Lord. What Changes we could bring to please God. Pray! Why doesn't more effective change happen. Good question. If you could secretly poll the brain of all the congress people - they would all like more positive changes to bring the lasting hope of God to the People of the United States.  They just don't want to be the squeaky geek to lead the charge. Looks ineffective. It's risky to stand up like that in front of your colleagues. Pray for us all to have personal courage. Because really there are good people willing. If they had the Shepherd to pull them together.

Lord Jesus is willing - help us to be willing. In His precious name. Amen.

Our country, has more adoptions per 100 births than any other country on earth. People want to love children. God tells us in the Gospel - this is a good and godly aspect.

When we say that marriage does matter. Loyalty and vows. Covenant is rare, but marriage is covenant. You are rarely asked in Church to stand up and vow your life before God. We put the interests of our Word and Promise to God as something needed. That is important! This is very basic structure to our framework of our existence as a People. People who need God.

We need to make sure we are the generation that doesn't shrug away what the Word of God says. Even as we understand that the Law of Jesus is Spirit to worship in our heart knowing what He says is Love. The Spirit of God is for Peace. The Spirit of God makes a Path to bring forward the way He gave each of us with His Plan and Gifts.

God likes Billy Graham. He has seen the last Chapter and knew it was going to turn out ok. 

Let's turn out ok, ourselves, and bring this chapter to a Higher Path for Him. Love is going to be a peacemaker and a blessing for those who call upon Jesus, believe in their hearts and profess with their mouths. Jesus will be our righteousness. Jesus help us take our lives and others to a Higher Path.




Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul

Amos 5:15
Hate evil, love good; maintain justice in the courts. Perhaps the LORD God Almighty will have mercy on the remnant of Joseph.

Hebrews 13:18
Pray for us. We are sure that we have a clear conscience and desire to live honorably in every way.

1 Peter 3:21
and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also--not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a clear conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Romans 13:8
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.







We went to a funeral today of an amazing man who lived to be 89 years old. The Sermon was excellent. The Minister was a High School friend of my husband's. A Very Good Sermon. Yet the Sermon was truly this :

This man lived doing amazing deeds because he recognized with awe and wonder the work of the Holy Spirit in his life.

Isaiah 32
But the noble make noble plans,
and by noble deeds they stand.



This man lived knowing Father God profoundly changed his life. In miraculous ways. He lived saying Noble men make noble plans. Noble actions are called for in noble plans. Noble plans make noble men.

His sons stood up to give witness to their father's faith, which he called upon to instill in his sons. They spoke and my brother in law spoke of a life lived nobly. The Scriptural point they saw in their father was incorporated into the next Hymn. The entire funeral pointed out that by Scripture we move forward in God.

Faith creates Hope, creates Love, makes a Life pleasing to God.

I do not think I have ever seen witness to more faith. His wife of 62 years showed in her loss, in her hope of the Great Reunion, in her steadfast convictions - Jesus is our destination.


Father God, We give You great and profound thanks to have lived today seeing this family demonstrate the families of faith in our Nation. And ask Your blessing upon them and ask You, Father God, bless the families of this Nation to continue to be blessed by You and rise up to have another Great Awakening of the Holy Spirit for Your Glory. In Jesus the Lord. Amen.

 

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Email registry at bottom.! “All Scripture is inspired by God” (2 Timothy 3:16). Men “moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God” (2 Peter 1:21). The Holy Spirit carried men along, moving and guiding them as they wrote in their own words what God wanted them to say. The Bible is unique; comprised of 80 separate books, & written over a period of thousands of years by more than 40 writers with one Author, spanning the centuries, different states of peace & war & different situations in life. The Bible answers the question: of who is God, who is man & what can their relationship can be. Although the Bible was written on perishable material and copied by hand for many centuries, its accuracy is not in doubt, proven by Dead Sea Scrolls and papyrus from 2,000 years. The Bible has survived persecution & criticism to be read with great interest in each generation. The Bible gives witness to the greatness of the Creator. A loving Father concerned for all of his creation. With each verse of the bible witnessing to God is love and the multitude & vastness of His attributes. The Bible was written for you. <><

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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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