Matthew 6:10 ~ Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven

Matthew 6:10

Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Charmian Carr has passed on. She had a Brightness.A Brightness we can all identify with. Reminding our soul, when times were more simple and life moved at a more traditional pace. A time when God seemed to say, Be honest, tell the truth. Trust in the Lord. And He would take care of you.

Heaven. Where more "Yes" will occur.

Where people unite. Differences are solved with our Father God of Love. When people move with Love in one accord.

Acts 1:14
All these with one accord were devoting themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.

When we see this earth has Heaven. And still ... we see glimpses.





True prayer unites us - we lean to Jesus, upon Him and say, "Jesus is our destination." And draw comfort.

Matthew 17
17 Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.” 18 While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue ruler came and knelt before Him. “My daughter has just died,” he said. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.”…

The Fruit of God's Holy, Holy, Holy Spirit.

How do we know in the vast multitudes upon multitudes of Almighty God's Kingdom, our little shining soul makes a hill of beans? That is the intersection of a Real and Living God to you. If our Father and Creator of All Things calls life forth with His Word - we do matter. We are loved and we see and believe God's known hand in our lives will wipe tears away and settle disputes in Heaven.




There will be far more "Yes" in Heaven.


In our America, if you wanted to see President Abraham Lincoln, you went to the White House and asked to see the President. Now, why don't we do that today? Because of the fear of the unknown and safety. In Heaven there will be more "Yes."

I love to listen to Rev. Jesse Duplantis tell with utmost sincerity of his visit to Heaven. Who greeted him? King David. Now what Scripture would indicate this fact? David is God's example of an inclusive Shepherd who Loves. David was not widely held in popularity for the 22 years of his anointed quest. And when he began to reign, with four years of bump, bump, bump and bruises, and a wonder will -this- actually- happen series of events, David kept on in Faith, Hope and Love.


Lot's more "Yes" in Heaven.

I have people I want to meet.
I want to truly meet Ronald Reagan and not just glimpse this man with Nancy, Barbara and George 70 feet away. I want to shake his hand and have a conversation. And I will tell you - the elect will have fellowship.

I want to meet John John Kennedy and tell him, your brightness and your compelling efforts to ask people to combine efforts for goodness - has not dimmed. The fruit from your tree goes forth. Your example is remembered.

I want to sit with King David and ask him how he was such a loving, obedient and faithful man in the distress of his life. What he did each day to see and have the gratitude of seeing God's mercy in a trial of life. I'm hoping that Absalom is now a balm to David. Rather like Sally Field's movie "Places in the Heart."

I want to meet Ruth. So see that optimism. That endurance through the Desert. I want to hear Boaz laugh. And tell about Solomon naming the Temple front door pillar "Boaz". I want to hear Boaz tell about having a foreign mother and opening his heart to a foreign wife. I want to see Naomi tell of the joy of a grandson. And I want to hear that story for 10,000 years when we have no less days to sing His Praise.

I plan on getting to meet Pop. Grandmother Bit was introducing her father to me on the day she kept asking, "Father, I am ready to go Home now." In explanation, Pop is her Daddy, but Father is Abba. Dang. I got close - that go to Heaven day. I heard Grandmother tell of her neighbor who had been gone for a good 50 years and her good friend gave her current, earth events. "Father, I am ready, can I come Home today?" Grandmother said with joy.

And my Daddy told me so many, many times of his grandmother. I will meet Munner. And my 94 year old great-uncle Allen saying to my mother, "Today, I get to see my mother. The best day of my life was getting ready for her birthday and I was making a gift she'd love.  I was six years old. Today I get to see my mother."


I want to hear Job tell about the whole story of his life. And if he knew Jacob - since they were alive about the same time.

I want to hear Hezekiah and Isaiah tell the people of Heaven about keeping the Assyrians at bay and turning Judah into the prosperity of Solomon's reign. How they praise Jonah for setting the love in place for Nineveh becoming the Assyrian Empire - who showed replenishment of love and respect for God and His people.

I want to hear Jesus tell us about how so many, many situations in live connect. I want to hold the hand of Jesus, many, many days.

We are united. Our destination is this Wonderful Jesus. Jesus our Pillar. He says each day His mercies renew,come and place Your hand on Jesus, and we will live.”




Father God,

Amazing Grace. Amazing Grace. Jesus the Lord.

Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

Romans 8 ~ God is for us +

Marvelous Light Chris Tomlin

Romans 8:30-32

These whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

31What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?
32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?


Today we went to Church and started our worship, after the music, with the Lord's Prayer. Suddenly I was struck by the reality of we all will fall to our death.

When I was in college, I began working for a company in Dallas during the summers and Christmas, and stayed for eight years. The second summer, I was dismayed because I'd really had a marvelous job the first year working on their magazine. The next year, the company wide magazine had folded. I was in the insurance department filing claims - in a drawer. The bright spot were the two women who were wonderful Christians. This was the summer of my parents divorcing after 25 years. We were losing my wonderful father to alcoholism and my mother's 25 year friend - also would die of alcohol related cancer before she was 70. And we were loosing our home, which was very lovely. My brother was ten and he would become a latch key child. My father's best friend from high school left him, and he and his wife would change houses, move, to be a block from us - to keep my brother after school. We went out to eat on Friday nights - 3 people splitting Nachos and having water.

I got - from the divorce - and loss of our home - a new/used nice car. As my dad departed. The car was not an adequate replacement for - Daddy. We all have one we'd like to save - and a swing and a miss.







Well the summer I worked in insurance, I adored the two ladies the same age as my mother. Delma had been divorced for 3 years and she spoke upward and able of Divorce recovery telling adventures how her college aged son's were always not respectful as their lives revolved around themselves in a college orbit. She was very Christian and very spirited and she was making sure her sons understood they would not have the motherly benefits of her attention without respect. We sometimes laughed at the ways Delma just didn't do what they ordered her to do and what their dumbfounded responses were. She'd divorced because her husband was an airlines pilot and directed the male household to his liking. And was gone all the time.

The other lady, Meredith, laughed along with us as this newly single mom set her house in proper order. Delma hoped this time to marry someone who would remain in Church. Meredith and Delma both were beautiful . Meredith has a very southern accent and very Baptist and oh, so sweet to me. I truly did adore her. And I had to go out of town to Mississippi the next week to see my grandmother. When I returned, my friend a generation ahead of me, Meredith, was crying. I went in to ask why. And Delma propelled me out of the room. I was told that circumstances had immeasurably changed for our friend. That first vacation Sunday Meredith and her 52 year old husband had sat in the same row they had sat for 25 years. He had had a pressing week at work and he nodded off. She held his hand and prayed for her wonderful husband, and she squeezed his hand and prayed for him to rest. As the service ended, he fell to her. He had a smile on his face, and was in Heaven.

You can't really tell someone 19, going through their parent's divorce, this story without crying. And I cried and cried. I was told to hush and not upset our Meredith. And instead, she came in to the filing room. We sat on the rolling footstools we sat on and cried and cried. And I told my friend, her husband was like Enoch. And she stopped crying and said how in the world would someone 19 years old know of Enoch. I reminded her I'd made a promise at age 16 to read the Bible. I said to her that her husband must have been that close to the Lord. And Meredith said no one has been as impressed as you at his death. She told me about the funeral I'd missed. I asked her how she could work - how was it possible and Meredith annouced and  said, "I quit, but I will come back in a week and give two weeks notice."

I was thanked for being so amazed at her husband's passing. And thanked and thanked for being with a reason of the Lord. And I said with all the people at that huge funeral, how could other people not be stunned. And she said, "I don't know." Now she had hurt feelings. So I suggested maybe the funeral and the luncheon were a blur. And suddenly she smiled, through her tears, and said, "I don't even remember the eulogy." We agreed later someone would tell her.


Two weeks later we had another conversation and Delma was asked to close the door to the filing room. So my southern friend told me she'd dreamed that I'd be blessed to pass away like her husband did. Let me tell you, I sat up completely straight and absolutely shocked. I was horrified. Meredith immediately was affronted and I just couldn't even speak, my mouth moved but no words came out. And she began to giggle. We giggled a lot. I couldn't laugh. I was concerned, puzzled and floored. And she said, "I'm sorry. I meant when you are very, very old."

That was 1982. And I forgot until recently this year.

So Church began and suddenly facing Edward's illness and my mom's, I realized this was probably, hopefully True. I have known a co-worker, a sister-in-law and a cousin, in recent times, to have had their God given and God told dreams - come to be part of the life revealed by the Lord. Many, many believers have dreams they know are from the Lord God, our Father. These brighten our faith to share. The more we trust God, the more we find God faithful.


Luke 11
 10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
 
 
And I thought what would be a better gift from God ~ I will trust God. I will pray not to not fear passing on. To only step to Jesus in peace of old, old age. 

I pray for Father God to be merciful to all of us. And I count on Him. And believe Him.





Psalm 40:5
Many, LORD my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare.


Psalm 8:3
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, The moon and the stars, which You have ordained; 4What is man that You take thought of him, And the son of man that You care for him?


1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.


Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good.


God does not act towards us without mercy. My southern friend, Meredith, remarried about two years later. She said she was sorry her late husband had not known her second husband, they would have been best friends. Her second husband said they would have time in Heaven. It was a huge Baptist Church and they did not ever meet, before. My friend smiled and she held her new husband's hand a lot.

Delma remarried and she said she was pleased to leave without burning down the insurance files and we all laughed.




With God all things are possible.

We will all have events in believers lives that strengthen us.

Jesus makes parallels. Jesus makes us aware Jesus is alive. Jesus will provide signs when we pray and look to Him. God is always God.  Only God is the One who is Good. We worship a Living God. Creator of All Things. And His son Jesus Christ. The Scriptures tell us there is a Book of Life. Psalm 139 says all of our days are written in His Book of Life before we are conceived.

From time to time, God assures us - His Plan is Living as well.

Jesus the Lord is our Hope and our Future.




We touch one another. Being uplifting - is never forgotten. Really.





Father God,

No one is Righteous before you. We know that none follow the law and where sin is increased, that Your Grace abounds. Saying rightfully so, that I know I am far from perfect in may ways. And yet, Father God gives me grace. And His Grace is marvelous to behold. Drawing us to Him.

With Jesus' help, we will be covered in His Name
an our righteous in HIm will flourish like the palm tree
and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

With God's grace we are planted in the house of the Lord;
we will flourish in the courts of our God!

We will still bear fruit in old age;
we are ever full of sap and green,
salt and light
to we declare with joy the Lord is upright;
He is our rock, and there is no unrighteousness in The Lord God Almighty.

We lift high our concerns to the Lord of Heaven and earth,
we lift high our loved ones to His Love and tender care,
we lift high our communities, and Churches, and neighborhoods.
We look with joy to the times ahead in Jesus.
He will answer our prayers and for our Nation
and for the people who with sincerity call on Jesus the Lord everywhere.

Praise God we are in Jesus Christ - forever and ever. Alleluia.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

Luke 9:49-50 ~ for You

Luke 9:49-50

John answered, “Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he does not follow with us.” 

50 But Jesus said to him, “Do not stop him, for the one who is not against you is for you.”



For Jesus. This is wisdom. And comes with Biblical advice. The Exodus was like the circumstances of Jesus, John recorded so many amazing circumstances surrounded Jesus, the world could not hold all the books of His days. And the advice given to Joshua, was, of course, "Not to the right or the left, be confident and trust in God." Jesus gave similar advice, He said, "Be Salt. Be Light." Jesus was not an advocate of extremism. Jesus said be welcoming, say yes, follow the Words of God in the Spirit of truth, mercy and love. Father God rejoices more in Thanksgiving, Gratitude, than sacrifice.

What did Jesus look for in the "LIFE" He gave His Disciples?

Unfortunately, only sinners were available for Jesus' service.

John is known for his love and loyalty.

James, Joses, Simon, and Judas were given time to journey to spiritual maturity. Seen for potential, and the diligence of traveling far places to bring Jesus glory.

James would climb mountains to be with Jesus. Jesus called this going the second mile.

Salome stood with Jesus, Jesus' mother, aunt, and John bravely in front of dire governing officials. She comforted and upheld. Going bravely to Jesus' Tomb with spices. Her bravery was rewarded, she was one of the first to know Jesus lives.

Open and warm hearted. Matthew was a dreaded tax collector. And Matthew couldn't wait to give Jesus a party.

Zacchaeus couldn't wait to clean up his life for Jesus. Repentant with Joy. And open his home.

Lazarus was very welcoming and hospitable. Peter was the same.

John and James were sincere. And bold to be honest bringing forth their true personalities to ask Jesus about their ambitions. Even their mother has a biblical mention for being transparent.

Thomas was going to cling to God. Where Jesus was going, Thomas was going.

Peter's mother-in-law was grateful and serving.

The SyroPhoenician woman had humility and knew where she was held in position, counting on Jesus' compassion, just as David did.

The 72 disciples were obedient to God.

Andrew was wise and discerning of goodness and love.

Nathaniel knew when God was speaking to Him and was abundant with Love and praise.

Nicodemus was careful and loyal, he was brave to be honorable away from the herd. A dangerous herd of law bringers.

Bartimaeus would not leave Jesus, gratitude, love and loyalty. One of the few. Steadfast.


Simon of Cyrene would diligently help Jesus in dire adversity, his sons lives were changed.

The woman at the well found bravery and forgiveness.

The boy with the fish was generous, and adventuresome.

The Holy Spirit told Joshua about balance. The answer to our prayers is not always yes, and this is God's blessing answer.


Matthew 12:30
Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.

God says No. He says the wheat and the chaff will be separated. The lambs held close and dearly and the goat sent away.

For what reasons?

Doing away with balance.

1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.





1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality.
Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Galatians 5:19-21
Now the works of the flesh are evident:
sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.





Romans 2
8 But for those who are self-seeking
and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil

James the Brother of Christ told us when to say No.

In the Third Chapter.  
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice
I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

1 Timothy 6
senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs. 11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things.


Those who scatter the flock. Jesus rebuked His own for trying to send children away. Flee the wolf, those who do not care for you, do harm.

Romans 16
18 For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

Paul's letter to the Romans

29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. 
They are gossips, 30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

What does God's Word say?

Hebrews 11:25
choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures

James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God.

1 Corinthians 16
13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done in love.




John tells us in Revelation 9

Revelation 21:8
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.

Peter told us God's Words are Life. Jesus tells us He is the Way, Truth and Life.




Father God,

We ask for Jesus' help in this prayer and for each day You give us:

You have set before us today life and prosperity, and death and adversity.

To do righteousness and justice Is desired by You, the LORD, more than sacrifice.

You have told us, mankind, what is good!
and what You, the Lord, require of us

We will do justice,
We will love kindness,
We will walk humbly with you, our God.

We will declare with our mouths, "Jesus is Lord."
We Will believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead,
We will be saved.


Isaiah 56 are the Words of our Father God

Thus says our Lord:
“Keep justice, and do righteousness,
for soon my salvation will come,
and my righteousness be revealed.

Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast,
who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil

I will give in My House and within My Walls
a monument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
I will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.

“And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—

These I will bring to my Holy Mountain, the New Jerusalem,
The Mountain of the House of the LORD
and make them joyful in my house of prayer!

My house shall be called a house of prayer
for all peoples.”
The Lord God,
who gathers the outcasts of Israel, declares,
“I will gather yet others to Father God
besides those already gathered.”

We thank You Father God, "Jesus is Lord."
We gratefully believe in our hearts You, Father God, raised Jesus from the dead,
We will be saved.

We ask this Name of Jesus the Lord to cover us.
We ask this Name of Jesus the Lord to cover our prayers, concerns, flaws.
We ask this Name of Jesus the Lord to cover our loved ones.
We ask this Name of Jesus the Lord to cover our communities, neighborhoods, jobs, cities, Nation.
We ask this Name of Jesus the Lord to cover all the people of the world who do and will call on Jesus the Lord.
We ask and receive Jesus,
We believe in Jesus,
Jesus gives us the right to become children of Father God,
Amen in the will of the Lord Jesus.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †