Psalm 97:11 ~ Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart +

Psalm 97:11

Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.




For whom?

Luke 1

77 to give his people the knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven


Why would the Light of the World, Light of mankind, soul knowledge of the New Covenant do this?


Jeremiah 31

32 Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD. 33 "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 "They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD

What about the Mother of God? Mary. Did she have Light sown joy in the righteousness and upright in Heart?

Mary was surely facing a difficult set of circumstances.

And what did she say to the Good News?


Luke 1:51-53
He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;
he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones
but has lifted up the humble.
53 He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.


Is Mary wrong?

No. And we will say this out loud with clarity. James, the Brother of Christ and Son of Mary mentions the rich in goods of this world 6 times with chastisement. And while Mary, descendant of David might have some bitterness to being treated roughly by the wealthy. God intended her words for the God purpose of humility within our apparently full spirits and pocket books.

And if we heard Mary say this for the first time in 1 A.D. we might say this sounds bitter coming from a young woman the Sanhedrin Council History records was a descendant of David, not from Solomon, but of David's child Nathan to her father Heli.

[****** People sometimes ask if Jesus is really Historical - real. Yes, when we are using the Sanhedrin and Roman Histories to see the records of Jesus ancestry, Bar Joseph, of Nazareth and His Mother Mary - the answer is Yes. See the first 320 years A.D. of Roman and Caesarean History. And the Histories of Eusebius and Josephus and many, many others.]

We have no way of knowing, other than James, about Mary's attitudes. We do know Jesus didn't go home when Mary, Simon, Jude and James came to pick Him up and return Him to Nazareth. We know Jesus said twice about His Mother and Brother's, the people who do the Will of God deserve to be called His Family.


So in these questions of motive, Jesus enters into this life.

John 1

In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 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.

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



Who shall be part of 'Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart'?


We know the Saints ran off and deserted God when He needed prayer in the Garden. And the next day? They were Zero Help. And with this group of befuddled men - Jesus returned to fix breakfast on the beach on the Day of Jesus' Very Own Triumph Over Death. And Jesus surely did not fire, leave or desert them for being always confused.

Jesus Christ Emmanuel Light of the World

We cannot say  the Light of Jesus Christ functioned in the disciples as they attempted to scurry Children away from Jesus.




Luke 1

To give knowledge of salvation to his people
in the forgiveness of their sins,
because of the tender mercy of our God,
whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high
to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the way of peace.

And his mercy is for those who fear him
from generation to generation.
He has shown strength with his arm.
He has helped his servant Israel,
in remembrance of his mercy.

Luke 2

“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”




We find what Father God is teaching us - only God is good. We can see truth in the Words of God from Mary and perhaps some anger. We look to Jesus to teach us of Father God.

This applies to Paul as life became a narrow path to God. Peter and Paul were not comforted by all the fruit of their hand, they found life narrowed. The truth is here. We are learning to be the Light of Christ - by - what means - by faith. We have to depend on very few people - because God tells us in Genesis - it is not good to be alone - and the truth is when we all will reach our final destination before Jesus - our soul presented as we are the Prodigal Child to God - we are - by faith - by faith - by faith - learning to be the Light of Christ Jesus the Lord - in ourselves.

2 Timothy 4:11
Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.


What do we learn about this? The Light of God, the light of mankind is here.

Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.


This is us as we ask God to dwell within us and we believe.

Hebrews 6

17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us. 19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever




Mary said and the rich are sent empty away? The Prideful. The Arrogant. The self-serving. Those willing to say follow 'My Example'. The 'self' righteous. Not Nicodemus. Not the Stewart of Herod' s wife. Not Lyda - the seller of purple. Not Sosthenes the ruler of the temple. Not Jairus. And Caesar??? Well St. Constantine was formed from the horrible fire and trouble life will give you. This man was forced by the Emperor - to kill a good family off for their tortured refusal to dismiss Jesus. Eusebius was the eyewitness to the event traveling to Nazareth. What was Diocletian - prideful, self-serving, self-righteous, arrogantly well off. Filled with the power of his show of his own force.

And what was St. Constantine? St. Constantine the Great - Saints & Angels - Junior Emperor and Emperor called the "Thirteenth Apostle" in the East. The son of Constantius I Chlorus, Junior Emperor and St. Helena, Constantine was, and is, judged for MILLENNIUMS. Why we can't find out who shot President Kennedy and yet we feel we can judge a man's soul is ... beyond me. We could surely judge the disciples poorly if we felt inclined. Man judges is not of the Bible and yet, yet, yet the Bible includes flaws of people to see God returns to them and to us.

What Jesus would do for Constantine and for me - beyond compare. What Jesus would do for you. Astonishing. God just saunters through life - wanting to save - all of us. Hold us in His Pinions.
Held in the Arms of Jesus. This Love. The Promises. The Truth. The Way. The Life.







We have to see this in small doses to grasp the Enormity of God Almighty, King of Kings. Light of Light. True God.

Our, our, our Abba,

Jesus us gives us the Strength to look at our lives to rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.

We want to worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the our own understanding. The Scriptures repeat and repeat so the Living Word of God bursts to the flame of Life in our soul we call heart.

We want, Father God, to gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of our own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith— that I may know Him and the power of Jesus' resurrection.

We want press on to make it our own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

In Jesus, putting what lies behind, behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. With Jesus we will press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

With the help of Father God, let us hold true to what we have attained.

We know Jesus our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Jesus. And in this living hope, we lift up those we love and the people God has given us. For health, for long life, for the willing blessings of God to gladden us each day. Finding His mercies. For the people we have prayed for and will have the joy to do this today. Thank You for Your many, many blessings. With Joy and Love and Faith forever with expectation.

Alleluia, Alleluia Alleluia Jesus is Mine. Amen in Christ Jesus the Lord..

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

John 1:29-45 ~ The Spirit remained on Jesus

John 1:29-45

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!


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?”

Luke 1:78-79

"Because of the tender mercy of our God,

whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high

79 to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death,

to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

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.

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).

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.”


We see in John's Gospel Chapter One, right from the very beginning - Jesus is called by Andrew "Messiah." This is an amazing claim. Andrew has found John the Baptist to be Spiritually amazing and has followed John the Baptist as a Prophet of the Most High God. Andrew has inquired and searched his heart and determined after a few short hours, "Jesus is the Savior Son of God."

John wastes no time in saying in Chapter 4, Jesus has boldly and without preamble announced He is the Christ to the Samaritan woman.




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.”

Why is the Profession of Faith and Belief of Peter so acknowledged?

Perhaps because Jesus tells of Peter's roll which was prophetically filled. Then again, Jesus tells us of Amazing 2,000 tear old Church yet to have been even discussed. This is told over and over - Peter acknowledges Christ Jesus as God.

Peter has followed Jesus with fear, awe, wonder and has found Jesus to be the Word of Life.

Peter has first hand, eyewitness to the Works of God. And has worked through with blessed eyes seeing God.



What would Peter choose to say about Jesus, what would be the most important things Peter would see?

1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

God who renews us to start again. And we should be mindful of God's Profound Mercy.

1 Peter 1:13
Therefore, with minds that are alert and fully sober, set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.

1 Peter 1:9
For you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

1 Peter 2:11
Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which war against your soul.

1 Peter 2:9
You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God's special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.




Father God,

When Jesus and His chosen Disciples set out to tell us about the Journey of Faith, Peter wanted us first to be mindful of the Journey, to establish the goal and the framework God was establishing.

And Jesus told us several times about emotions. Jesus said we could have anger and that's was fine, just don't sin. Jesus encouraged us to not have fears. Jesus continued to work with His chosen through their fear. Jesus told us we are not responsible for words and actions of others. Jesus told us we are responsible for the words and deeds we put forth.

Father God, an interesting example of rubber and glue.

Mark 7
14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand: 15 There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”

17 And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable. 18 And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, 19 since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled?”

Jesus is our Lord God and we bless You Father, You meet, fill and bestow with all of Your Favor. Jesus as Savior of all the World. Jesus bless us with forgiveness of our personal sins and flaws. Thank You for Your mercy to me and to the ones I love and we cover the people You have given us.

And this follows along perfectly with the teaching of Jesus' Peter.

Thank You, Jesus for covering us with Love and Mercy. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

Psalm 91:5 ~ You will not fear

Psalm 91:5

5 You will not fear the terror of the night,
nor the arrow that flies by day.


Castles - in time of plague -

Spain 1596–1602 plague
South America 1600–1650 malaria
England 1603 London plague
Egypt 1609 plague
30–90% of population Southern New England, especially the Wampanoag people 1616–1619 Unknown cause. Latest research suggests epidemic(s) of leptospirosis with Weil syndrome. Classic explanations include yellow fever, bubonic plague, influenza, smallpox, chickenpox, typhus, and syndemic infection of hepatitis B and hepatitis D. ,
280,000 Italy 1629–1631 Italian plague of 1629–1631 plague
Wyandot people 1630 in Ontario smallpox
Thirteen Colonies 1633 Plymouth Colony smallpox
Thirteen Colonies 1634 Connecticut River area smallpox
England 1636 Newcastle plague
China 1641–1644 helped end the Ming Dynasty plague
Spain 1647–1652 Great Plague of Seville plague
South America 1648 yellow fever
Italy 1656 Naples plague
Thirteen Colonies 1657 Boston, Massachusetts measles
24,148[17] Netherlands 1663–1664 Amsterdam plague
100,000 England 1665–1666 Great Plague of London plague
40,000 France 1668 plague
Spain 1676–1685 plague
76,000 Austria 1679 Great Plague of Vienna plague
Thirteen Colonies 1687 Boston, Massachusetts measles
Thirteen Colonies 1690 New York City yellow fever
18th century
Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
Canada, New France 1702–1703 smallpox
Sweden 1710–1711 Great Northern War plague outbreak plague
Thirteen Colonies 1713 Boston, Massachusetts measles
Thirteen Colonies 1713–1715 New England and the Great Lakes measles
Canada, New France 1714–1715 measles
France 1720–1722 Great Plague of Marseille plague
Thirteen Colonies 1721–1722 Boston, Massachusetts smallpox
Thirteen Colonies 1729 Boston, Massachusetts measles
Spain 1730 Cadiz yellow fever
Thirteen Colonies 1732–1733 influenza
Canada, New France 1733 smallpox
>50,000 Balkans 1738 Great Plague of 1738 plague
Thirteen Colonies 1738 South Carolina smallpox
Thirteen Colonies 1739–1740 Boston, Massachusetts measles
Italy 1743 Messina plague
Thirteen Colonies 1747 CT, NY, PA, SC measles
North America 1755–1756 smallpox
North America 1759 measles
North America, West Indies 1761 influenza
North America, present Day Pittsburgh area. 1763 Native American victims of Biological warfare during the Siege of Fort Pitt, part of the French and Indian War. Smallpox
>50,000 Russia 1770–1772 Russian plague of 1770–1772 plague
Pacific Northwest natives 1770s smallpox
North America 1772 measles
North America 1775 particularly in the northeast unknown cause
England 1775–1776 influenza
Spain 1778 Cadiz dengue fever
Plains Indians 1780–1782 North American smallpox epidemic smallpox
Pueblo Indians 1788 smallpox
United States 1788 Philadelphia and New York City measles
New South Wales, Australia 1789–1790 amongst the Aborigines smallpox
United States 1793 Vermont influenza and epidemic typhus
United States 1793 Virginia influenza
United States 1793–1798 Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793, resurgences yellow fever
19th century
Death toll (estimate) Location Date Article Disease Ref.
Spain 1800–1803 yellow fever
Ottoman Empire, Egypt 1801 bubonic plague
United States 1803 New York yellow fever
Egypt 1812 plague
Ottoman Empire 1812 Istanbul plague
Malta 1813 plague
Romania 1813 Bucharest plague
Ireland 1816–1819 typhus
>>100,000 Asia, Europe 1816–1826 first cholera pandemic cholera
United States 1820–1823 arising near Schuylkill River fever[ambiguous]
Spain 1821 Barcelona yellow fever
New South Wales, Australia 1828 amongst the Aborigines smallpox
Netherlands 1829 Groningen epidemic malaria
South Australia 1829 smallpox [
Iran 1829–1835 bubonic plague
>>100,000 Asia, Europe, North America 1829–1851 second cholera pandemic cholera
Egypt 1831 cholera
Plains Indians 1831–1834 smallpox
England, France 1832 London, Paris cholera
North America 1832 New York City, Montreal other cities cholera
United States 1833 Columbus, Ohio cholera
United States 1834 New York City cholera
Egypt 1834–1836 bubonic plague
United States 1837 Philadelphia typhus
Great Plains 1837–1838 1837-38 smallpox epidemic smallpox
Dalmatia 1840 plague
South Africa 1840 Cape Town smallpox
United States 1841 especially severe in the South yellow fever
20,000+ Canada 1847–1848 Typhus epidemic of 1847 epidemic typhus
United States 1847 New Orleans yellow fever
worldwide 1847–1848 influenza
Egypt 1848 cholera
North America 1848–1849 cholera
United States 1850 yellow fever
North America 1850–1851 influenza
United States 1851 Illinois, the Great Plains, and Missouri cholera
United States 1852 New Orleans yellow fever (This one changed my grandmother Anita's life)
1,000,000 Russia 1852–1860 third cholera pandemic cholera
Ottoman Empire 1853 what is now Yemen plague
4,737 Copenhagen, Denmark 1853 Cholera epidemic of Copenhagen 1853 cholera 
616 England 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak cholera 
United States 1855 yellow fever (This one changed the life of my father's family)
worldwide 1855–1950 Third plague pandemic bubonic plague
Portugal 1857 Lisbon yellow fever
Victoria, Australia 1857 smallpox
Europe, North America, South America 1857–1859 influenza
Middle East 1863–1879 fourth cholera pandemic cholera
Egypt 1865 cholera
Russia, Germany 1866–1867 cholera
Australia 1867 Sydney measles
Iraq 1867 plague
Argentina 1852–1871 Buenos Aires yellow fever
Germany 1870–1871 smallpox
40,000 Fiji 1875 Fiji measles
Russian Empire 1877 Baku, now part of Azerbaijan plague
Egypt 1881 cholera
9,000 India, Germany 1881–1896 fifth cholera pandemic cholera
3,164 Montreal 1885 smallpox timeline
1,000,000 worldwide 1889–1890 1889–1890 flu pandemic influenza



As I was saying - Castles - in time of plague - we'd like to have one!!!

King Henry VIII was serious about saving himself when Plague visited England during his reign.

Henry would quickly draw up a Great Plan visiting the healthier air of the countryside. Three purposes. One - to save himself.  Two -  showing the Monarchy Power and Influence requesting a Royal Party for Henry and his Court- great in number. Three - bankrupt nobility making the Crown come in First!

Unfortunately, the castles Henry brought the Court trailing along - yes - plague traveled with Henry.


We know today from epidemic studies, DNA saved human beings from plague. Rather a God Plan than Human Plan. Pope Clement VI was widely known placing torches or fire cannons around him in hope of forcing plague away. This wisdom came from the people who prayed for the Papacy. The fires kept the fleas away. God does amazing things yesterday and today. We can expect this tomorrow too.




What plagues do we have in the USA.

Probably complacency.

People fail to truly appreciate each other. Frequently troubled marriages have ease of friendship and economics.

Cornelius Vanderbilt is an odd choice for a Bible Study. He pushed all other people out of his way getting monopolies making the fortunes of his gilded era. He was one very tough hombre. Late in life, he married an unwilling female cousin. He was as rude to her as his first wife. She couldn't wait to be a widow. Cornelius knew this and said to willing and expectant relatives, who had not worked for their fortune - something grim and true. He told them they would become too grand to appreciate the monopoly on all trains entering NYC and would sell their cash cow. To spend more and enter into the fray of "Glorious Society" forgetting they were immigrants who had Family Fortune based on running a steamship ferry. He told them to wise up, keep the monopoly and try to live more simply. He was right. And as the fortunes were divided, spent in glorious living, more and more unhappiness and divorces and unusual circumstance did occur.



My very blessed and fortunate Great-Grandfather would sit his family down for a meal, in later life, and he would look down the table and say, "Eat Heartily. This might be your last meal."

I don't think he added, "Bon Appetit" or "Salut".




What's in your Castle?







Father God,

We will all have a day where our Time is planned to go Home. One third of the population saying Jesus as Lord - we are talking about multitudes upon multitudes - as seen by Joel. Your Beloved being covered in the grace of Jesus Christ, Wonderful and Auspicious God.

Father God, warm and tender our hearts as Jesus did on the Emmaus Road. Help us to be to You, like Daniel, who knew God is God. Help us not to live as Grumple Stillkins.

Let us remember again,
God is Good and Your Goodness. Real Goodness.  Life is strong and filled with real Hope of God. The Strength of God - Peter Knew Jesus is God and Jesus is Words of Life. Eternal Life.

Remembering wonderful Step-Grandfather Reverend Tate said, "Hell is going on a long vacation with the ones you love, in a little car!!!" And let us with gratitude -  real gratitude - realize we could be parted forever from the people we truly love - and remember again - strive as communicators in our insignificant conversations.

Rembrandt's Road to Emmaus

Let us truly, and really appreciate, the people we have in our hearts, let us encourage and build them up. Knowing we want our Beloved to feel loved. To be appreciated. We want to walk the path God has given us to know we did our best. Today, today, today we pleased Jesus.

Our lives continue forever - and yet, the gift of time teaches us - Today is our life and we really want empowerment making the most and best of our God Given treasures He Gives to us today. Filling our tomorrow is filled with joy. Knowing His pleasure  we worked for Wonderful Jesus. Father God embolden and empower - helping us - to be love and encouragement to the ones we Love and the people You have Given us.



Abba, thank You I feel well,  praying again for ears  have gone a bit louder today and feel confident this is Your Plan and Good will arrive. Thank You for my parents, and their continued goodness in our lives - as in-laws are family of the heart - decades of love. Thank You for Edward's health and innovations at conversations for entertainment, warmth and value.

Thank You for my children. Living and alive in Heaven. Thank You for our home and the people You have Lovingly, Lovingly given me. I appreciate Your steadfast love so I don't run down the hallway and give a swift kick or verbal punch .I am grateful for the Forgiveness my people, from You, have given me. I am grateful Your mercies renew and Your Mercies are diligently given in my life.


Hosea 14 Repentance to Bring Blessing

We will never again say ‘Our gods’
to what our own hands have made,
for in you the fatherless find compassion.”

4 “I will heal their waywardness
and love them freely,
for my anger has turned away from them.

5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he will blossom like a lily.
Like a cedar of Lebanon
he will send down his roots;
6 his young shoots will grow.
His splendor will be like an olive tree,
his fragrance like a cedar of Lebanon.

7 People will dwell again in his shade;
they will flourish like the grain,
they will blossom like the vine—
Israel’s fame will be like the wine of Lebanon.

8 Ephraim, what more have I to do with idols?
I will answer him and care for him.
I am like a flourishing juniper;
your fruitfulness comes from me.”

9 Who is wise? Let them realize these things.
Who is discerning? Let them understand.
The ways of the Lord are right;
the righteous walk in them,
but the rebellious stumble in them.


What is our Father God? Tender mercy and renewed Strength of hands and heart and tender Love.


Matthew 13
31 He put another parable before them, saying, “The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. 32It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches.”

Jesus You have told us. "How often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings!!!"

Oh, the places He would go. You uphold Life by Your Word.  A Beautiful Promise and Sure Truth. Life Forevermore in Jesus the Only Son of God. God is Truth.

Jesus our Wonderful. Amen in Jesus Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

John 1:3-5 ~ Light shines

We are doing a Bible Video Study of Ray Vander Laan.

And I have to tell you everything Ray Vander Laan pointed out to us comparing The Creation with the comparison of Moses building the Tent Tabernacle for God was - incredible. Moses' Creation. A comparison of the Universe to what was in Moses' hands.


God used two pages in the Bible to tell of Creation. (Peter was more elaborate and spoke of one day to God is Thousands of Years.)

Moses spoke to God in 50 pages of 3,000 pages to tell of the Tent Tabernacle. The released slaves use their creativity to worship God. A thanksgiving. Comparing and contrasting the Joy Jesus tells us in Proverbs of Creation - Jesus laughed with delight.

Moses is completely enthralled with the area God has helped him to carve out in this time, in this life - to honor God.

Ray Vander Laan makes a powerful, meaningful point that this is - the space - we make for God. In the heart. In our time. In our life. What we bring to the Lord He has not given us - Gratitude.






I almost felt shocked at the idea. Moses time was for Moses. Moses is Magnificent. And because life is real - the tent of Moses is carved out of the desert - Prince of Egypt - Harsh conditions. Fearful conditions. And Moses was glad for his time to have with God.


We have something exactly like Moses...

Today. This is our life. Today, we get the same choices. Just like Moses. This is your life. Your time. And perhaps your desert. We all have to solve our life puzzles. And bring to our lives - the time, heart and space we give to the Lord God.

Just like Moses, we get our life to believe - thank You.

We can use our lives to do the work God has given mankind - Believe.




Ray Vander Laan pointed out that the Menorah is actually an artistic representation of Moses' Burning Bush.

And when you look again, this combines Aaron believed Moses. And Aaron added to the love by adding in Aaron's Budding Almond Branch. Later Isaiah would add on and say the Budding Branch is Jesus.

And Solomon would contribute to the life long efforts put up for Solomon, and God, by David. Solomon would take the Light of God to be Powerful and Large.

Like Moses - you have your time now with God.


Like the people of God - you have your time to think what the Light of the World is in your life.

John 1:3-5

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.



Father God,

When Jesus lived and moved among us as Grace upon Grace, He did all things well.

The people begged him to lay his hand on him. And taking him aside from the crowd privately, he put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting touched his tongue. And looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, “Ephphatha,” that is, “Be opened.” And his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly.

Jesus had what few people of the Bible have - immediacy. What Jesus does is not undone. His Word is to be filled.

I want to say Thank You my ears are better today than in months. I say, with profound gratitude. Thank You, Jesus, Abba, Holy Spirit and ask for Your continued Blessing. We will continue to pray with great joy for the people who have shared their concerns with us. And lift them like the incense You requested in the Tabernacle of Moses to The Book of Revelation. The aroma of Your beloveds' concerns is wonderful to You.

Blessings abound and with Your Help, we will see them. Be the Light revealing Your Goodness to open hearts, open minds, open eyes and open ears. In Jesus we will see Your Glory. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

John 4:48-52 ~ The man took Jesus at His Word

FAITH, WORDS, ACTIONS, And ATTITUDES 

John 4:48-52

48 “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

49 The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

50 “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed.


 51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

Luke 4:31-36

I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

35 “Be quiet!” Jesus said sternly. “Come out of him!” Then the demon threw the man down before them all and came out without injuring him.

36 All the people were amazed and said to each other, “What words these are! With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!”

Luke 5:4-6

4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch.”

5 Simon answered, “Master, we’ve worked hard all night and haven’t caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets.”

6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break.

Luke 5:12-14

When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, “Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean.”
 
¹³ Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” And immediately the leprosy left him.

¹⁴ Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

Matthew 17:26-27

Jesus said to him.  “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”




Father God,

Each day we get up and think about our blessings, our plans, the work we do and the Good Work You give us. Lead us and guide us in Your direction. Enable us to be on Your Path. We thank You for Your care for these years we have lived.

Father God, I lift up those I love and the people You have graciously place in my life. For the conversations we've had about cares and concerns, we know as we pray, You hear and answer. I lift up the allergy season ahead and the cold I have. I'm praying for healing ears.

We are asking for the health of the man from Saturday. For Edward's health. For this city and small businesses stability, employment and future employment. For parents who have aged to have joy and health. For prayers to increase health and provide future health. For faith to increase and hope is not foreign. That we all face the future with the joy God would have in us. Living and Abiding in the Word of God in our hearts.

For the blessings, You have given us, we say thank You, Father.

We holds fast to You, Father in love, You will deliver us;
You will protect us, because we know Jesus.

When we call to You, You will answer us;
You will be with us in trouble;
You will rescue us and honor us.

With long life You will satisfy us
and show us Your salvation.

Oh His Word, we will believe. Amen in Jesus Lord.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

John 17:9-23 ~ so that the world may know that You sent Jesus and loved us even as You loved Jesus.

John 17:9-23

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 All mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are one.

12 While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.

14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one [from evil]. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them [Set them apart for holy service to God] in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I consecrate myself [I sanctify myself; or I set myself apart for holy service to God], that they also may be sanctified [may be set apart] in truth.

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

Jesus felt so comfortable with His people (us) He would sit to teach, or sit in a boat to teach. When you look at the last Chapter of John's Gospel (Truth) you find the Disciples are sitting with God's Son, Who provided breakfast, and  then they have the gall to squabble with Jesus about John and life and Romans. So, they were pretty comfortable.

And looking for a Super Bowl winning pass - one day they told Jesus, collectively, Jesus needed to provide them with Winning Prayer Ability. Jesus, being God Himself, replies with a story about friends. And then fathers and sons. Jesus was major league fond of these knuckle heads. Jesus didn't even call down fire on them when they suggested burning the Samaritans up. Jesus didn't even fire these men when they tried to chase children away from Jesus.




John 17, Jesus praying is alive. The Word of God alive tells us Abba prays for us. Revelation tells us God inhales prayer and hears us. Remarkable what such a Vast and Loving God does for us and His Abilities.


Famous people who pray have different ideas on prayer. Fascinating. Really we are learning our relationship to God is unique. Each of us. Our life story, what we learn from God. We are the Easter People and in the New Covenant, where John tells us Jesus is the Light of the World existing in all of mankind, the New Covenant also tells us Father God places His ways, His plan, and knowledge of Him in us.



Father Francis MacNutt (b 1925) is an American former Roman Catholic priest. Graduate of Harvard and The Catholic University of America, Washington. Author of "The Power to Heal" among many other books. Is now married to Judith MacNutt, M.A. - Christian Healing Ministries - a clinical psychologist. Judith first met Francis MacNutt briefly in Jerusalem in 1975. They have had many, many years of healing in the Name, Glory and Power of Jesus. My mother has friend named Patricia, who is also a psychologist, who was going stone, cold blind from inherited failure of blood vessels to the eyes. Patricia went all over the USA where the MacNutts were doing healing seminars. Patricia went everywhere Jesus was having healing. Patricia angered her doctors because she refused to learn Braille - a much needed step in retaining the ability to read when you go for sighted to blind. And fully astonished the eye doctors finding she was healed of an impossible cure. Asked why Patricia prayed with all sincerity and earnestness constantly to Jesus explaining to Our Father she needed her eyes to continue to heal people. Insisting this was in line with His goodness. Constant prayer. Sometimes weeping, sometimes angry. Patricia was healed for life.


Judith and Francis MacNutt have many, many people who fully understand they have a real and sincere healing ministry where Jesus and His Father work their mighty works. They tell us we have to pray with people for a long time and in this sincerity God is willing, willing, willing. And we know He is.
Thank Jesus.




My mother was healed of a documented Thyroid tumor by asking at a Wednesday Healing Service at Church of the Resurrection being Prayed over by Father Ted Nelson. Who would very, very promptly remind us Jesus is the healer and that is the end of the story about Fr. Nelson. Rightly said. My mother had had this tumor for two years according to her driver license photo. And Jesus healed her in about 15 minutes where she reported Jesus decided to microwave her entire body.




George Mueller was a native Prussian b. 1805-1898 at the age of 92. George lived and moved with joy in the great awakening of 1859 which he said “led to the conversion of hundreds of thousands.”1 He did follow up work for D. L. Moody,2 preached for Charles Spurgeon,3 and inspired the missionary faith of Hudson Taylor. His goal was to find homes for 150,000 orphans in England - and he did. While preaching three services a week. He spent most of his life in Bristol, England and pastored the same church there for over sixty-six years. George had a style of praying unique to him. He walked in a place, to pray for orphans or to begin an orphanage and he said, "Jesus, please."



I'm not sure we could point to many styles of prayer like we know about Jesus who loved to pray for hours to converse with His Abba. Making His Abba our Abba. We could remember something very important though - Abraham is the Father of Nations. Abraham was willing to stand and give God his life moving to unknown territories and finding rest under the Oaks of Mamre. Abraham was willing to go toe to toe with the God Abraham was certain of - created all of the universe - and ask God in His Nature to have Mercy and expect God to show Mercy.

Jacob understood the power of words regarding God. Jacob understood to break generational silliness requiring one blessing. Jacob was so certain of God's Willingness to Bless and lived each day of this belief. Even knowing to leave the promised land to let God be God. Jacob was renamed in this power of belief - The Nation of God. Jacob blessed and blessed and blessed and in this tender love - blesses us today. Teaching us of faith. God's Goodness.


David - his belief in prayer could shape our lives today. David believed that if God judged against us - because He is so loving - He would relent and harsh circumstance would reveal a blessing. David believed this without much proof for 21 years.



My opinion on prayer is this. Why wouldn't we pray the Lord's Prayer added on to with Revelation Chapter 6, the eyewitness of John seeing God's Kingdom, Power and Glory. And why wouldn't we close the Lord's Prayer adding in John 14 and 15 - praying in the Name of Jesus. And why wouldn't we pray in the style of George Mueller and believe Jesus knew the blind mens' needs before they ever did and pray "Jesus, please" and why wouldn't we pray like Pat as we have constant conversation with Father God. And why wouldn't we want to treat God with respect. Abiding in the Word of God.




Our Father,
Who is in Heaven,
Hallowed be Thy Name,
Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will be Done
on earth as in Heaven.
Give us this day
our Daily Bread.
Forgive us our sins,
as we forgive those who sin against us.
Lead us not into Temptation.
Deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the Kingdom, the Power and the Glory.

And when the saints go marching in, how we want to be in that Number.

Covered and cared, loved, and forgiven, upheld and encouraged, 
We are praying for the people You have give us. Our loved ones, in Jesus the Lord. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †

John 12:44-50 ~ Jesus has come into the world as Light, that we will not remain in darkness

John 12:44-50J

44 And Jesus cried out and said, “Whoever believes in me, believes not in me but in him who sent me. 45 And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as light, so that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.


 47 If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 

48 The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

 49 For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. 

50 And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

The emotions of God for us to understand Who is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

Jesus cries out, "Believe."

Father God tells us clearly, the work of mankind is to Believe.

Jesus want us to be clear, to live in His Light.

Our Father is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Jesus tells us God is not condemning.


Exodus 34:6
The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,"

Jesus tells us how to worship God in Spirit and in Truth.

John 13:34
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

The Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life.

John 6
68 Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We believe and know that You are the Holy One of God.”

Matthew 22:29
Know neither the Scriptures, know the power of God.

Hebrews 1
2 But in these last days He has spoken to us by His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, and through whom He made the universe. 3 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

Abba,

Light of the World, Where no darkness is dark. We praise You, Abba, for Jesus.

You love mightily and carry our concerns when we look to You in Faith.

Completely covered in the Name of Jesus. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves!  †